Happy Pi Day. Yes, it's March 14th. If you write that date like an American, it looks like this: 3/14, and that looks like 3.14. It's not the best representation of pi, but it will do. As is my ...

FS Grain is building a new, efficient way to loan train cars shipping grain to major markets. Instead of never-ending, straight railroad tracks, a 1.5-mile oval is being built near St. Anne. The ...

A narrow-gauge locomotive with five cars, a caboose and an action-figure crew runs in David Wood’s backyard, where the mountain landscape and spilling waterfalls are a lot smaller than the ...

That existing system, which also determines whether tracks are broken, detects a train’s position within only about two miles and transfers just 3 or 4 bits of data per second, he said.

This story was originally published by Inside Science News Service. Tuesday evening's deadly derailment that sent an Amtrak Northeast Regional train careening off its tracks has many people asking ...