In early March, Elon Musk called Amtrak, the U.S. intercity passenger rail service, an “embarrassment” and suggested privatizing it. Soon after, the Trump administration forced Stephen Gardner, Amtrak ...

TRAIN HORNS BLARING. YOU HEAR THE WHISTLE SOMETIMES AND YOU’RE LIKE, OH, SHOOT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, HEARD IT THIS TIME CAME DOWN AND SEEMS LIKE SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE GOT STUCK AND THEN DRAGGED. FROM WHAT I ...

A BNSF freight train in Barrio Logan. (File 9hoto by Chris Jennewein/Times of San Diego) If California’s politically influential labor unions get their way, the state’s freight trains would get ...

Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday. The Transportation Department's Federal Railroad Administration ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Los Angeles startup Parallel Systems has raised $100 million to develop autonomous, electric freight trains ...

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...

After 20 years as an aerospace engineer, including 13 years at SpaceX, Matt Soule sought a new transportation challenge he could channel into a startup. He chose electric battery autonomous freight ...

Five years ago, the average Union Pacific freight train was 8,000-feet long. Today, it's more than 9,000 — with many extending as long as 15,000-feet. Nicknamed 'monster trains,' these freight haulers ...