On the technology spectrum, railroads would certainly seem to skew toward the brutally simplistic side of things. A couple of strips of steel, some wooden ties and gravel ballast to keep everything in ...

A train passes through East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday, April 6, 2023. The February train derailment in East Palestine has raised questions about the safety of freight rail companies. Now, the U.S.

OMAHA, Neb. — Freight railroads should reexamine the way they use and maintain the detectors along the tracks that are supposed to spot overheating bearings, federal regulators urged Tuesday in the ...

The Association of American Railroads plans to install approximately 1,000 new heat detectors on lines, which are a focus in current Norfolk Southern derailment investigations. BRS, the Brotherhood of ...

The freight train derailment in eastern Ohio involved a failing wheel bearing that overheated without initially triggering the alert threshold set for the railroad’s defect detectors, according to a ...

The February train derailment in East Palestine has raised questions about the safety of freight rail companies. Now, the U.S. Congress is considering two pieces of legislation that would address the ...

Workers continue to clean up remaining tank cars last week in East Palestine, Ohio, following the Feb. 3, Norfolk Southern freight train derailment. Today, in the wake of a fiery Ohio derailment and ...