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.
One can extrapolate: an equivalent American rail network could transport 500 million passengers a year on fast rail and provide jobs for one million people operating trains, maintaining track, and serving customers.
A two-year-long, 178-page report that cost taxpayers £500,000 has arrived at the unsurprising conclusion that commuters want trains to run on time.
Ambitious Obama plan seeks to spend billions on high speed rail service.
BOOZER Sascha Hager has vowed to get his life back on track after he survived being run over by two trains. Sascha, 23, passed out on tracks near Soemmerda station, Germany, after a bender but was so drunk he sank into the sleepers allowing trains to pass right over him.
Saturday was National Train Day. This year, Philadelphia's 30th Street Station hosted an event honoring the Pullman porters, the African American men who worked long hours as attendants on the luxurious sleeper trains operated by the Pullman Company from 1868 to 1969.
MAITLAND - Residents have been complaining for years about trains blasting their horns. The city took a step this week toward banning that routine, but peace and quiet might be another decade away.
President Obama unveiled his administration's blueprint for a new national network of high-speed passenger rail lines Thursday, saying such an investment is necessary to reduce traffic congestion, cut dependence on foreign oil and improve the environment.
Obama envisions a nationwide system of high-speed lines. The $787-billion economic stimulus package included $8 billion to pay for them, and Obama's proposed budget would dole out another $1 billion a year for five years for passenger rail.
United States President Barack Obama is calling for the country to move swiftly to a system of high-speed rail travel, saying it will relieve congestion, help clean the air and save on energy. Current U.S.
I hope Amtrak is able to pull this off because it would be such a great tribute to close out a grand chapter in American History.
A festival in France is celebrating the role of railways in the world of the silver screen, but why are there so many trains in the movies we watch? Once upon a time an audience was very surprised to see a train in a film.
Over at The Oil Drum, there's a fascinating (though long and somewhat technical) post by Alan Drake, an engineering consultant, laying out what it would take to drastically expand electrified rail in the United States.
The high-speed rail line, a topic of discussion for years, would require $110 million to upgrade existing freight lines and terminals to handle a passenger train operation, said Mark Lambert, spokesman for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.
Obama hopes to build upon that model by installing railroads to link cities in other parts of the nation—an effort he believes could help revitalize the Midwest.
Railroads made Chicago, and now a Chicago-rich White House wants to return the favor: remaking rail with a huge new federal investment in high-speed passenger trains.
A new train manufacturing factory is to be built in the UK as part of a £7.5bn contract awarded by the Government today which will create or safeguard 12,500 jobs.
On some of the heavily used intercity high-speed rail lines, trains depart every three minutes.
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle went out for a night of dancing and mingling in the nation's capital Tuesday to celebrate his inauguration.
While the relatives of a Hayward man slain in an officer-involved shooting at a BART station gathered to bid him farewell Wednesday, emotions flared in the surrounding community.
Seriously. Add some rolling stock, or get a 10 to 6 schedule, already.
Britain's own version of the Japanese bullet train raced into London on its maiden passenger voyage yesterday - at speeds of up to 140mph.
One of the biggest factors undermining a commons-based society during the 20th Century was the automobile. Untold billions of dollars of public money was spent to enshrine the private car as essential to modern life, first in the U.S. and then throughout the world.
A feisty Harlem woman turned the tables on three subway muggers, chasing down two of the thugs while snatching back her purse - because it had her green card in it, cops said yesterday.
Overall, more than 70% of the major transportation-funding measures on ballots this year were approved, about double the rate at which initiatives are usually passed, the CFTE said.
This lucky little cat has used all her nine lives on a terrifying 100-mile rail journey clinging to a tiny ledge under a freight train wagon. Her curiosity led her to climb on as the train was undergoing maintenance at a depot.