The Trump administration said Thursday it was withdrawing a proposal for freight trains to have at least two crew members, nullifying a safety measure drafted under President Barack Obama in response to explosions of crude oil trains in the United States and Canada.
Read moreA deadly 2017 Amtrak derailment in Washington state was caused by a dangerous curved track and the railway’s failure to use technology designed to automatically brake ahead of such curves, according to a final report adopted Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Read moreTaking aim at the German railway Deutsche Bahn on Thursday, an EU magistrate said customers should not have to be German residents to buy tickets online via direct debit.
Read moreThe Court of Federal Claims refused to dismiss a challenge by landowners to a rail-to-trail conversion.
Read moreFrank Lloyd Wright began calling his idealized vision of an American community “Usonia” in the 1930s and the Usonian homes he built then were affordable and simple, and showcased the influential architect’s utopian vision.
Read moreSANTA CRUZ, Calif. — A state judge ruled against an environmental group’s objections to repairs to a rail line, paving
Read moreJustice Brett Kavanaugh split from the conservative wing of the Supreme Court to join an opinion Monday that finds compensation to an injured railway worker qualifies as taxable wages.
Read moreEuropean Union authorities on Wednesday blocked a deal to create a rail giant that could compete with China, angering France and Germany, which vowed to change the way the EU works.
Read moreNorth and South Korea broke ground Wednesday on an ambitious project to modernize North Korean railways and roads and connect them with the South, but without progress in nuclear negotiations, regular trains won’t be crossing the border anytime soon.
Read moreResidents of Lumberton, a small city near the North Carolina coast, claim in court that the CSX railroad’s refusal to allow officials to berm an rail underpass ahead of Hurricane Florence allowed a catastrophic flood to submerge their homes and businesses.
Read moreResidents of Durango sued the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Company over claims it caused a 54,000-acre fire earlier this summer.
Read moreCrossrail, the new east-west London railway designed to bring relief to jam-packed commuters, announced Friday that it is postponing its scheduled December opening by the better part of a year.
Read moreA 1600s Native American fort uncovered as part of a rail bridge replacement project is shining some light on a tribe’s first dealings with Europeans, archeologists said on Tuesday during a tour of the site.
Read moreA Chinese company building a key rail link in Malaysia said Wednesday that it has been told to suspend work pending negotiations, and urged the new Malaysian government elected two months ago to honor the contract.
Read moreMalaysia’s government said Tuesday a major China-backed rail link project can only be viable with a “drastic” price reduction by the Chinese contractor as the actual cost of the venture is 81 billion ringgit (about $20 billion).
Read moreIn a win for railroads, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that money earned by a railroad employee’s exercise of stock options should not be treated as compensation for the purposes of paying payroll taxes.
Read moreTwo Iowa women filed a pair of lawsuits blaming Canadian National Railway Company and two U.S. subsidiaries for severe injuries they suffered last year while climbing through a stopped train to cross the tracks.
Read moreA powerful French union is vowing to push ahead with strikes that have hobbled nationwide train services, even as signs of a possible compromise emerged in talks with President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
Read moreRail workers set up street protests across France on Thursday as they resumed their rolling strike against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to revamp the national railway company SNCF.
Read moreA federal antitrust class action claims Knorr-Bremse/Knorr Brake Co. and Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp., two of the world’s largest rail-equipment suppliers, conspired in an “anti-poaching” agreement, decreasing wages and work opportunities.
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