A year after 38 cars in a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, igniting a massive chemical fire, ProPublica reporter Topher Sanders says America's aging freight systems ...

Los Angeles, Calif.-based Parallel Systems on Dec. 20 released a video of its new autonomous battery-electric freight cars, which it said showed them “successfully platooning,” or “connecting with one ...

The World Bank's approach to supporting rail logistics focuses on enhancing the efficiency, sustainability, and resilience of rail transport systems globally, with a particular emphasis on shifting ...

America’s railways are the backbone of our nation’s economy, as they provide safe, cost-effective and energy efficient transport for a vast variety of raw materials and finished products to ...

A BNSF freight train in Barrio Logan. (File 9hoto by Chris Jennewein/Times of San Diego) If California’s politically influential labor unions get their way, the state’s freight trains would get ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. A ...

Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has undertaken testing of the European Digital Automatic Coupler (DAC) in extreme winter conditions.

Each freight train on the UAE network can carry the equivalent of up to 300 heavy trucks, moving on fixed schedules, on dedicated corridors, unaffected by peak-hour congestion or road incidents ...