Members of the Explosive Ordinance Disposal were called to the scene in Stacksteads ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

Q: While thinking through the operating scheme for my World War II-era (1944) model railroad, I wondered where troop trains sat in timetable priority. Obviously they were extras, but were they bumped ...

LATEST Feb. 18, 12:45 p.m. The CEO of California’s High-Speed Rail Authority is on voluntary leave after an arrest earlier this month at his Sacramento-area home, multiple outlets reported. Politico ...

Amtrak is rolling out a fleet of fancy new trains, and Oregon riders at the front of the line to try them out. The rail company gave a first look at its new Airo class trains at a media event Tuesday ...

California’s flailing High-Speed Rail project is undergoing yet another marketing smokescreen, with soaring costs leading officials to pitch a pipe dream of bullet trains depositing riders at Yosemite ...

A recent study estimates the new rail line could generate over $1 billion in one-time economic output and support hundreds of jobs. While the project has received initial planning funds, funding for ...

Inuit and their dog team stand in front of a U.S. military radar installation at Thule, Greenland, that scanned the skies for Soviet bombers and missiles during the Cold War. More than 100 native ...

In light of climate change, flygskam (Swedish for flight shame) and the ease of arriving at a city-centre train station instead of the hassle of a far-flung airport, the world is all aboard for train ...

It oversees one of the world's biggest railroad networks, employing around 700,000 people and operating 85,000 kilometers of track that stitches together 11 time zones, carrying millions of passengers ...

Stephen Mattingly, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, explains why high-speed rail projects in much of the country so often go off track. Dr. Stephen Mattingly ...

A high-speed rail slammed into a herd of elephants, slaughtering seven and leaving one calf wounded in India Saturday. As many as 100 elephants were crossing the tracks when the train’s engineer ...