(Trucks carried 58% of all freight in 2017, whereas trains followed in second place at 16.2%. Meanwhile, the average truck delivery dropped from 800 miles to 500 miles between 2005 and 2019.) ...

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 ...

In July, a 2.5-mile-long Union Pacific train derailed for the same reasons elsewhere in Nevada. In August, a 1.6-mile-long Union Pacific train going 48 miles an hour derailed in Texas.

Amtrak told CNN Business that to calculate trip times for most of its proposed new routes it researched passenger train times in the mid-1950s to early 1960s and chose the best trip time. Amtrak ...

The freight trains that passed the Santa Fe station were going too fast to hop on, so I walked south down the tracks about a mile to where a freight yard was. I didn’t see any people, but the ...

FAST TRACK TO ASHEVILLE: Train-hoppers often utilize the box cars and grainers running along one of two Class 1 freight rail lines, both owned by Norfolk Southern, that pass through Asheville: One ...

Compare that to Florida East Coast Railway freight trains. Their maximum speed is 60 mph, and TCPalm clocked one doing 22 mph in Fort Pierce Friday. “They don’t go as fast as I thought ...

It took 90 months for the China - Europe freight trains to complete their first 10,000 trips, but only six months to go from 100,000 to 110,000.