Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new book on the northeast corridor by SUNY Buffalo professor David Alff shows that few of the problems that NJ Transit is facing ...

RENSSELAER, N.Y. — The Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) and the Hart Cluett Museum announced the launch of a captivating new mini-exhibit at the Joseph L. Bruno Rail Station in a press ...

Central railway station, Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by: Bildagentur-online/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The bicentenary celebrations of the birth of modern rail travel—commemorating the ...

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Dan Snow looks at how, from their beginnings as track-ways for coal carts in the early 18th century, railways developed into the pivotal technology for modern Britain. Dan Snow traces the development ...

Mukul Kumar's lecture explored how Indian Railways, initially a colonial tool, became vital for freedom fighters and mass nationalism in India's struggle for independence.

Railways tend to work best when they are reasonably flat and level, but unfortunately for engineers, the world was not formed with railways in mind. Throughout the history of rail, new solutions have ...