A freight railroad transloading company has been set up in the rail yard at Lackawaxen, Pike County, taking delivery of tons of crushed quarry stone from nearby quarries for shipment out of state. The ...

SunTrain wants to use the existing freight rail system to transport clean energy from wind farms and solar arrays to the grid. Now, there’s a company looking to address that problem with a simple yet ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Los Angeles startup Parallel Systems has raised $100 million to develop autonomous, electric freight trains ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado has received a federal infusion of $66.4 million in transportation funds to boost freight train safety and enable expansion along rail corridors ...

The business of moving goods in the United States is dominated by trucks, which handle about two-thirds of the 20.2 billion tons of freight that’s transported annually. Parallel Systems founder and ...

Houstonians living within the city limits use the Metro light rail system, a type of public transit that should not be confused with the trains that transport freight. Although passenger trains and ...

Sometimes called railway fishplates, rail joints are an important component of a rail track system to connect two rail tracks together. Three commonly used types of rail joints include: Bolted joints ...