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 ...

A train derailed in Hartford on Monday, June 30. Three conductors went to the hospital with minor injuries. Thousands of gallons of diesel fuel leaked out, and crews are working to clean it up.

Tucked away off Highway 126, on a network of railway tracks sometimes used to shoot movies, a local startup is testing what it says is the future of transportation: driverless freight trains. Parallel ...

The Agricultural Transportation Working Group has urged Congress to strip the Railway Safety Act of provisions that it says could disrupt supply chains, including the legislation’s proposed limit on ...

Five rail infrastructure projects will receive almost $4.5 million in funding from the Minnesota Department of Transportation ...

Unions are pushing for shorter freight trains to make railways safer, but that could raise the cost of goods and delay passenger rail service. It also may not be legal. This story was originally ...

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 ...