ABILENE, Kan. (KSNW) — Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad says they will be able to operate their historic steam engine one more year before it has to undergo its federally mandated 15 year ...

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 ...

A derailed freight train burns on a bridge spanning Tempe Town Lake, July 29, 2020, in Tempe, Ariz. The fire burned for about nine hours, billowing smoke and scorching the wooden trestles of a nearly ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — To help quickly spot safety defects on moving trains, Norfolk Southern said Thursday it has installed the first of more than a dozen of a new generation of automated inspection ...

More than 330 railroad bridges pass over freeways, highways and streets in Minnesota, and last year state and local inspectors determined that one in five of those was structurally deficient, ...

BISMARCK – North Dakota officials say they hope to bring to the Legislature next year a plan to create a state-run railroad inspection program to better monitor the heavy crude-by-rail traffic leaving ...

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 ...

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YOU KNOW WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HAS HUNDREDS OF TRAIN BRIDGES, AND WE DRIVE UNDER SOME OF THEM DAILY. TONIGHT, ACTION NEWS INVESTIGATES JUST HOW SAFE ARE THESE BRIDGES AND WHO’S IN CHARGE? ONE ...