The nation's freight railroads are going to be able to try relying more on technology and inspect their tracks in person less often after the federal government approved their waiver request on Friday ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Two railroad employees filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday (Aug. 21) seeking compensation for injuries they say were sustained during a July inspection of the Huey P. Long Bridge ...

The Federal Railroad Administration is taking its time deciding a potential expansion of automated railroad track inspection technology, which industry insiders say could put them in direct conflict ...

A derailed freight train burns on a bridge spanning Tempe Town Lake, July 29, 2020, in Tempe, Ariz. The fire burned for about nine hours, billowing smoke and scorching the wooden trestles of a nearly ...

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — To help quickly spot safety defects on moving trains, Norfolk Southern said Thursday it has installed the first of more than a dozen of a new generation of automated inspection ...

More than 330 railroad bridges pass over freeways, highways and streets in Minnesota, and last year state and local inspectors determined that one in five of those was structurally deficient, ...

Two established Australian Rail Inspection companies have combined forces to provide an expanded view of rail networks’ assets. Using proven ultrasonic, vision recording, magnetic induction sensing ...