Trains rely on smooth, durable wheels to operate safely, but what happens when one develops a flat spot? At VIA Rail’s ...

Nothing highlights the impact and risks of the global supply chain on the North American rail industry better than wheels. Yes, wheels for rail rolling stock: freight cars, passenger and transit cars, ...

Maglev bullet trains promise a future where steel wheels and clattering rails give way to smooth, floating speed. Yet the ...

RAILWAY AGE, JULY 2022 ISSUE: Reducing rail wear and mitigating noise in tight curves are among the benefits of lubrication and its high-tech equivalent, friction management. Suppliers are helping ...

On the technology spectrum, railroads would certainly seem to skew toward the brutally simplistic side of things. A couple of strips of steel, some wooden ties and gravel ballast to keep everything in ...

While train wheels may look simple, their conical design actually conceals some of the smartest engineering solutions in transport. Far from just trundling along steel rails, it's the shape of the ...

On the same day Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw assured a U.S. Senate panel the company will clean up the mess from its train derailment in Ohio last month, a trade group issued a national advisory ...

There’s something magical about a train, whether you call it a railway or a railroad, plenty of us have hankered after our own little piece of line on which to shunt wagons or chuff around our domain.

American trains are pretty simple beings, really. They carry people from A to B in rudimentary comfort with very few bells and whistles. That isn't the case with rail travel overseas though, and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When a Regional Transportation District light rail train ran off the tracks in southeast Denver last year, agency officials issued public service alerts ...