A bill including a limit on freight train lengths and a prohibition on blocking grade crossings for more than five minutes ...

A House committee approved two safety bills Tuesday addressing concerns in the wake of serious industrial accidents in 2023. The separate bills deal with the freight train derailment that led to ...

The National Academies of Sciences (NAS) is urging the rail industry to look into the risks posed by freight trains that have gotten increasingly longer in recent years. The 106-page report from the ...

The freight railroad company BNSF says the Rocky Mountain Steel Mill in Pueblo stopped shipping rails for train tracks this fall. That’s according to a recent legal claim filed by the railroad.

The agency that oversees the U.S. rail network thinks it has a plan to help freight trains switch from diesel to cleaner and less expensive electric power. A Federal Railroad Administration study on ...

LANSDALE — A pickup truck struck a freight train early Tuesday at the SEPTA crossing at Broad and Vine streets, causing serious injury to 2 men in the truck, suspending rail service and closing Broad ...