Railroads

Japanese rail company JR Kyushu says that one small slug was responsible for a power outage and subsequent delays…

Sylvestre Matuschka ranks among the most bizarre mass murderers in history. Way before World War II, he anticipated…

Railroad tracks have been a constant presence in the ever-changing American landscape since the 1800s. Whether…

Each autumn, leaves fall to the ground by the billions. Slightly annoying if you have a backyard but really annoying…

In 1880 industrialist George Pullman set out to build a capitalist utopia. The town of Pullman was established…

Passenger rail has never been known for punctuality (at least in this century), but over the past year, Amtrak's…

The golden age of railways is steaming back into the modern era—in Japan at least. Since the island nation…

If we really are witnessing the dawn of a "new golden age of train travel," there are few better places to see it…

Santa Monica's McClure Tunnel—is there a more dramatic 400 feet of roadway in all the Southland? First, the daylight…

Built shortly before the dawn of the Jet Age, L.A.'s Union Station has been called the Last Great American Railway…

Here in the U.S., the arrival of a new tunnel boring machine is huge news, warranting naming ceremonies and Twitter…

The advent of the railroad collapsed our notions of time and space, and it carved out entire industries whole—we of…

Structure fires are never a good thing, but that doesn't mean they can't be damned impressive. Last Sunday, this…

There are a lot of things that can go wrong with the 140,695 miles of railroad covering America. The tracks have to…

We refer to things as snake oil whenever it over promises, scams, has no proof in being able to do what its been…

...but it's actually very safe! And yes, NASA has a railroad. It's been around since 1963, actually—so apologies to…

The April 24, 1960 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's Closer Than We Think imagined a futuristic world of robot-driven…

French engineering firm Alstom unveiled its successor the the TGV today, the AGV. Standing for Automotrice Grande…