Railway track maintenance is essential to ensuring safe, efficient and reliable rail transportation. At the core of the discipline lies an intricate relationship between the physical degradation of ...
Advancing rail safety requires sustained collaboration among regulators, railroads, suppliers, and researchers. FRA ...
One of our society’s current mantras is to “Follow the Science.” Unfortunately, this oft-repeated phrase cannot distinguish between science and myth, so one may not always be perfectly clear about the ...
FOREST HILLS (WABC) -- An MTA track geometry car discovered a rail defect north of Queens Plaza that is affecting E, F, M and R trains. Repairs are being made now, but it is not clear how long service ...
ENSCO Rail has received a contract to equip two Canadian National Railway (CN) hi-rail vehicles with a track geometry measurement system and a machine vision joint bar inspection system, used to ...
A new system of keeping track of subway track defects is off the rails, MTA employees say. New York City’s 665 miles of subway tracks are riddled with breaks, cracks and missing bolts — but MTA ...