More than one-third of the trains, equipment and facilities of the nation's seven largest rail transit agencies are near the end of their useful life or past that point, the government said Thursday. Many have components that are defective or may be critically damaged.
Board a train in London, and in 2 1/2 hours you can be in Paris, City of Light — or in Manchester, city of gray skies and grit.
- To the headache of shepherding as many as 2 million people to and from Barack Obama’s inauguration as president Tuesday, add this complication:
Just outside Milan, the countryside started to blur as the Italian Railway's new Red Arrow high-speed train reached its maximum velocity of 186 mph (300 kph).
Just outside Milan, the countryside starts to blur as the Italian Railway's new Red Arrow high-speed train reaches its maximum velocity of 186 miles an hour (300 kilometers an hour).
A Southern California commuter train that sideswiped a freight train this week had run a red signal, an investigator said Friday, and officials are looking at brake problems or human error as possible causes.
After half a century as more of a curiosity than a convenience, passenger trains are getting back on track in some parts of the country.
For young fans of trains, getting an up-close look at the massive machinery can be a dream fulfilled. For train workers, indulging the kids' fantasies can be an ego boost.
A handcuffed man was hit by two trains on a commuter rail line Wednesday morning, and authorities investigated whether the death was a suicide or a homicide, officials said.
More than 20,000 people have been killed on Mumbai's notoriously overcrowded train system over the past five years — many of them crushed, run over or electrocuted — according to official data.
Up to 100 passengers were evacuated from a subway tunnel Tuesday after a single train stalled and officials shut down all service on a major route between downtown and O'Hare International Airport.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency may expand the use of passenger trains to evacuate the sick and elderly in advance of hurricanes across the Gulf Coast, a FEMA official said.
Dylan Lauren is known as the daughter of famous designer Ralph Lauren, but she’s also a celebrity entrepreneur in her own right as the owner of the growing, increasingly popular Dylan’s Candy Bar franchise, which has six U.S. locations, including the flagship shop in New York City. As a seeker of all things sweet, Lauren has traveled all around the world. We caught up with her just in time for Valentine’s Day to talk about candy and travel and how the two mix.
A train stuck overnight in the Northern California mountains resumed its journey Saturday after a snow plow that was blocking the tracks was removed, officials said.
North and South Korea began regular freight train service across their heavily armed border Tuesday for the first time in more than a half century, in another symbolic step in their reconciliation.
An administrative court ordered the French state and the national rail authority to pay compensation to a family whose relatives were sent by train to a Nazi transit camp for Jews during World War II, a lawyer said.