The U.S. has no federal limit on freight train length, leaving the cost-conscious rail industry free to experiment with giants like the 3.5-mile, nine-locomotive behemoth that chugged from Texas to ...

Officials say the recent derailment in downtown Austin shows risks of freight trains running through dense urban areas, even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A freight railroad transloading company has been set up in the rail yard at Lackawaxen, Pike County, taking delivery of tons of ...

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 ...

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...