A new system of keeping track of subway track defects is off the rails, MTA employees say. New York City’s 665 miles of subway tracks are riddled with breaks, cracks and missing bolts — but MTA ...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) recently approved a five-year waiver that lets railroads expand the use of Automated Track Inspection (ATI) technology. This decision, announced in December ...

Federal investigators renewed their recommendation that major freight railroads equip every locomotive with the kind of autonomous sensors that could have caught the track flaws that caused a fatal ...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Oct. 23 and 24 published two successive, related Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRMs) the agency says will enhance railroad track safety by requiring ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The nation’s freight railroads are going to ...

Anyone who has rode the New York City subway can tell you that it has a lot of problems, from strange noises to flammable debris on the tracks. Now, as is the solution for everything these days, the ...