Dramatic video showed the moment a freight train smashed into a sewage truck on a rail crossing in Virginia, causing a huge explosion of waste. The driver of the truck was left with life-threatening ...

Nobody likes exploding trains, but Americans can’t yet seem to quit their unhealthy relationship with fossil fuels, and so we get exploding trains. Five this year, as a matter of fact. You know who ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Well, this is becoming an unfortunate trend.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a railway track as a passenger train passed through the ...

A powerful explosion near a railway track in Pakistan’s Balochistan injured over 30 people as train coaches overturned and caught fire. The BLA has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Train design didn’t change gradually after World War II, it changed suddenly. A catastrophic boiler explosion in 1948 exposed the hidden dangers of steam locomotives. Extreme pressure, human error, ...

Emergency crew put out fire at Union Pacific railyard involving ‘heavy toxic smoke’ near North Platte, Nebraska (North Platte VFD / Twitter) A train car carrying toxic acid at a Nebraska railyard ...

Pakistan's prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, said he strongly condemned the "heinous bomb explosion" and sent his condolences to the victims' families.

A representative of Ukraine's state-owned rail company said the attacks coincide with Russia's "dramatic increase" in drone production.