A misaligned switch at the Long Island Rail Road’s second-busiest junction was to blame for last week’s derailment that injured 13 passengers aboard a Hempstead-bound train, MTA officials said Friday.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, U.K., are working on Repoint, a new cutting-edge railway switch (points) technology to improve upon the traditional design, which has been in use for ...

Researchers are working on a new cutting-edge railway switch (points) technology to improve upon the traditional design, which has been in use for over 200 years. Researchers from the University of ...

The Long Island Rail Road derailment that injured 13 people in Queens last week occurred because a track switch was out of place, and the train received a signal that it wasn't, according to the ...

Federal officials say a damaged track switch knocked a train carrying hazardous materials off the rails in Whatcom County last week. Three tank cars carrying diesel fuel and two carrying molten sulfur ...

A Klamath Falls man is accused of trespassing at a local Union Pacific Railroad yard and changing track settings that caused four railroad cars to derail and more than $1 million in damage Monday, ...

Anger and frustration erupted among MBTA Commuter Rail passengers Thursday evening as an issue with a switch track resulted in train cancellations and passengers stuck aboard trains for hours. Bo Nix, ...

SEATTLE — The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. is nearing the end of the line on the installation of a $30 million IP network along a heavily traveled rail corridor in the Seattle area, a ...

The company will also deliver around 77 rail expansion devices for the track on viaducts and bridges. Credit: Michaela from Pixabay. Railroad equipment supplier voestalpine Turnout Technology UK has ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio— FBI agents on Friday arrested a Cleveland man on federal charges that accuse him of trying to cause a train derailment by wedging metal and spikes on tracks and track switches used ...