Founded by three former SpaceX engineers, the company is currently testing autonomous, zero-emissions rail cars that can drive on tracks independently. While a typical freight train today is miles ...

Fast Company's 2021 World Changing Idea for Transportation: The Wabtec FLXdrive Battery Locomotive uses batteries to help out its engine—and recharges them as it brakes.

That meant the train was not obligated to follow federal safety rules that require high-hazard flammable trains, or HHFTs, to ...

Yet there is no doubt about rail’s fundamental strengths for fast freight. Trains used to be the default means of delivering time-critical items such as letters and newspapers.