Railway track engineering is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the design, construction, and maintenance of rail infrastructure. A critical component of this endeavour is the ballast, which ...
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US engineers’ new shape memory alloy system could make rail tracks safer, longer-lasting
A research team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has found a way to stop concrete rail ties from cracking under heavy train traffic. Led by civil and environmental engineering professor ...
SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES -- An engineer deliberately ran a train off the tracks at high speed near the Port of Los Angeles in an attempt to crash into and damage the USNS Mercy hospital ship, ...
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California’s High-Speed Rail Crosses Major Milestone but Faces the Same Old Engineering and Political Crosswinds
Anyone who assumed constructing a 200-mph train span the state of California would be a no brainer clearly never attempted to lay track in the Central Valley. The most recent achievement finishing a ...
Transforming one of Sweden’s busiest railway arteries—without pausing a single day of operation—was a challenge for the Fyrspåret Lund–Arlöv project team. Stretching 11 km between Lund and Arlöv, the ...
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