Well-funded companies can look healthy long before they actually are. Large budgets allow for oversized teams, vague roles, ...

OMAHA, Neb. — The proposed $85 billion merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads has lost the support of two of their biggest unions that represent more than half the workers because they ...

BNSF accounts for a third of rail industry's NOx emissions Aging locomotives contribute to high pollution levels Rail industry resists adopting clean technologies due to cost concerns Dec. 14 (Reuters ...

The Sound Transit board needs to step back and consider what a successful extension of light rail to Everett would look like. The point of providing light rail directly to downtown Everett is to make ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stephen Mattingly, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at ...

A man accused of stabbing a Charlotte light rail passenger over the weekend appeared in court Monday morning, where a judge ordered that he be held without bond. Authorities say 33-year-old Oscar ...

Light rail service across Lake Washington on the I-90 floating bridge will begin before May 31, Sound Transit officials confirmed this week. “We as an agency are doing everything we can to open it ...

In a 7-5 vote, the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission approved a proposal by Commissioners Manu Koenig and Fred Keeley to build three segments of the Coastal Rail Trail over the ...

The Amtrak NextGen Acela is a new high-speed train that runs between Washington, D.C. and Boston. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Stephen Mattingly: With conventional rail, we’re usually looking at ...

Late-night light rail passengers in downtown Seattle must take shuttle buses for the next few days as Sound Transit works on scheduled maintenance in the transit tunnel. The work is part of Sound ...