A train passes through East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday, April 6, 2023. The February train derailment in East Palestine has raised questions about the safety of freight rail companies. Now, the U.S.

Freight railroads should reexamine the way they use and maintain the detectors along the tracks that are supposed to spot overheating bearings, federal regulators urged Tuesday in the wake of a fiery ...

The head of the federal probe into the Ohio train derailment lashed out Thursday at "politics" and "misinformation" she said are clouding the ongoing investigation and expressed her exasperation that ...

The nation’s railroads are facing federal pressure to take a closer look at how they use the detectors that investigators say may have been able to prevent the toxic train derailment in East Palestine ...

Norfolk Southern announced plans on Monday to improve the use of detectors placed along railroad tracks to spot overheating bearings and other problems in response to a fiery derailment on the ...

The Federal Railroad Administration issued a formal safety advisory Tuesday urging railroads to improve their use of trackside safety detectors, which failed to provide enough warning about a ...

Researchers in the University of Warwick’s Department of Physics have developed a novel non-contact method of using ultrasound to detect and measure cracks and flaws in rail track – particularly gauge ...

May 27, 2004 PHILADELPHIA­ - A commercial motion detector found in a rail car storage yard in Philadelphia, was not the making of a terrorist plot, according to the FBI and Southeastern ...