MxV Rail R&D, Railway Age January 2025 Issue: Recently, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Coupling Systems and Truck Castings Committee asked MxV Rail to evaluate how warp restraint systems ...

Freight train carrying vehicles derails, crushing new cars and trucks Photos from the derailment scene showed heavy damage to many vehicles and freight cars. Published June 8, 2023 • Updated on ...

But President Joe Biden’s vision for rail — a much bigger network that offers a reliable alternative to gas-guzzling cars — could fall apart unless freight railroads, which have been hyper ...

Rail cars that did not derail spilled hazardous chemicals 52 times. These included a Canadian Pacific locomotive on which a ruptured tank spilled 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel in Franklin Park in July.

The business of moving goods in the United States is dominated by trucks, which handle about two-thirds of the 20.2 billion tons of freight that’s transported annually. Parallel Systems founder ...

A driver managed to escape his stalled-out semi-truck along the railroad tracks at U.S. 1 and Lake Washington Road moments before a 20-car freight train plowed through the intersection on May 29.

By the mid-70s, trains carried only about 23% of domestic non-bulk freight (such as consumer goods) and trucks took 65.5%. By 2021–22, trains took just 16.7% and trucks took almost 80%. Just 2% ...