How electrifying a Bay Area rail system made trains faster, cleaner, and more frequent

A $2.4 billion upgrade is shaving minutes off Caltrain trips through Silicon Valley, doubling weekend ridership, and reducing ...

This Country Will Soon Offer One Of The Fastest Bullet Trains In The World

Here's how this country is poised to set a new global benchmark for high-speed rail travel and how its impressive stats ...

Could a light rail system connect all of Fresno County? Two studies are exploring it

One system could use existing freight tracks to connect the county’s smaller cities to downtown Fresno. Another could connect ...
Nature

High-Speed Train Control Systems

High-speed train control systems are at the forefront of modern railway engineering, integrating advanced computing, communication networks and control strategies to ensure navigation precision, ...
Dark Reading

Critical Railway Braking Systems Open to Tampering

Researchers have figured out how to spoof the signals that tell train conductors to brake, opening the door to any number of dangerous attack scenarios. When a large, moving train is rolling down the ...
Railway Age

VIA’s Peloquin Featured at Next-Gen Rail Systems

VIA Rail Canada President CEO Mario Peloquin is a featured speaker at Next-Gen Rail Systems, the communications, signaling and advanced technology conference presented by Railway Age, and formerly ...
Los Angeles Times

Driverless freight trains? This L.A. startup is already testing them

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Los Angeles startup Parallel Systems has raised $100 million to develop autonomous, electric freight trains ...
kcra.com

BART train system back on hours after systemwide outage disrupted Friday morning commute

DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD AND OTHER SUPPLIES. THE BART SYSTEM IS BACK UP AND RUNNING AFTER A COMPUTER ISSUE CAUSED ALL BART TRAINS TO STOP. THIS MORNING. THE MASS KCRA 3’S RYAN CURRY SPOKE WITH PASSENGERS ...