A bill including a limit on freight train lengths and a prohibition on blocking grade crossings for more than five minutes ...

A House committee approved two safety bills Tuesday addressing concerns in the wake of serious industrial accidents in 2023. The separate bills deal with the freight train derailment that led to ...

A freight railroad transloading company has been set up in the rail yard at Lackawaxen, Pike County, taking delivery of tons of crushed quarry stone from nearby quarries for shipment out of state. The ...

In late July, the Department of Justice took up a cause it hadn’t touched since the late 1970s: It sued a freight railroad for delaying Amtrak trains. In the lawsuit, the DOJ alleges that on tracks ...

The agency that oversees the U.S. rail network thinks it has a plan to help freight trains switch from diesel to cleaner and less expensive electric power. A Federal Railroad Administration study on ...

LANSDALE — A pickup truck struck a freight train early Tuesday at the SEPTA crossing at Broad and Vine streets, causing serious injury to 2 men in the truck, suspending rail service and closing Broad ...