Emergency repairs are needed for a failing retaining wall on one of the busiest sections of the only railroad connecting San Diego with Orange County, Los Angeles and the rest of the United States.

Emergency repairs are needed for a failing retaining wall on one of the busiest sections of the only railroad connecting San Diego with Orange County, Los Angeles and the rest of the United States.

Retaining wall work on River Street has been completed as part of the River Street waterline replacement and soil stabilization project in Willoughby. Construction commenced this month on the wall ...

Each tie begins with about 20 pounds of creosote, which decreases to around 13 pounds by the end of its 30- to 40-year lifetime. Once a tie is removed, it’s typically sent to a landfill or a ...

A 124-MILE STRETCH of rail from the New Hampshire-Massachusetts state line to Maine is getting a facelift, as more than 130,000 railroad ties are being replaced in an effort to ...

Segmental retaining walls. SRWs are a subset of gravity retaining walls that use modular, interlocking concrete units to retain soil. These dry-stacked units rely on their mass and interlocking ...

Thousands of railroad ties sit in piles near the 1600 block of South Kilbourn Avenue in North Lawndale. According a businesses owner next to this project, clouds of dust cause a bad odor and coat ...

Union Pacific aims to replace 600 railroad ties in Harris and Montgomery counties. To stream KHOU 11 on your phone, you need the KHOU 11 app. Download the KHOU 11 app ...

A historic cemetery in Minneapolis is getting attention from the National Park Service after a man was buried there who risked his life to guide people to freedom as part of the underground ...

You can continue adding rows to the top of the retaining wall to make it taller. However, the taller you make the railroad tie retaining wall, the greater chance you'll make construction errors that ...

Work to replace railroad ties across Wilmington will result in several road crossing closures in August. CSX Transportation has announced that they will be having a tie team starting in New ...