Lawmakers are scrutinizing railroad safety regulations following the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous chemicals. In a Feb. 21 Twitter exchange, Sen. Marco Rubio ...

Canadian Pacific (now CPKC) developed an ATGMS system with the help of ENSCO Rail in 2015. It was the first Class I to implement ATGMS technology. ENSCO photo The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) ...

FARGO — A union claims that a test of automated track inspection techniques on BNSF Railway ultimately will mean fewer visual checks of lines in North Dakota and Minnesota, setting up "a game of ...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Oct. 23 and 24 published two successive, related Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRMs) the agency says will enhance railroad track safety by requiring ...

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., signed an October 2021 letter along with a group of Republican senators encouraging the Federal Railroad Administration to quickly review railroad industry requests for ...

The nation's freight railroads are going to be able to try relying more on technology and inspect their tracks in person less often after the federal government approved their waiver request on Friday ...

The Federal Railroad Administration is taking its time deciding a potential expansion of automated railroad track inspection technology, which industry insiders say could put them in direct conflict ...

Advances in ultrasound—the same imaging technology that uses sound waves to allow doctors to monitor babies in utero—are being applied by engineers at the University of California San Diego to make ...

The nation’s freight railroads are going to be able to try relying more on technology and inspect their tracks in person less often after the federal government approved their waiver request on Friday ...

TrackEi enables real-time defect detection and predictive maintenance using NVIDIA Jetson edge AI. Credit: APChanel/Shutterstock. L&T Technology Services (LTTS) has announced the launch of TrackEi, an ...

Imagine if every bus and taxicab had lasers and cameras underneath, evaluating every mile of road for safety issues to help the transportation department spot the most serious problems as quickly as ...