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 ...

Taylor Thomas was diagnosed with severe asthma at the age of 7. Growing up in Long Beach, California, she needed inhalers and nebulizers and often had to miss recess. Still, Thomas said it wasn’t ...

This chapter reviews the railroad industry’s contention that long trains reduce fuel consumption and therefore greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and it describes the limitations of current research on ...

The U.S. Department of Justice sued Norfolk Southern railroad this week for causing frequent delays of Amtrak trains, in the latest example of the Biden administration pressing freight carriers to ...

In 1984, when Andrew Bader was 5, his parents took him on a cross-country train from California to New York. It was a special trip, one of the last experiences Bader shared with both parents before ...

The Biden administration wants to bring about a new age of train travel. But tension between Amtrak and the freight industry threaten to derail those ambitions. Even when everything goes right, Amtrak ...

Shardaa Gray is a Multimedia Reporter for CBS 2 Chicago. She joined the team in December 2021. She was born and raised in the south suburbs. She's happy to return home to report on her community. A ...

The derailment of a 178-car freight train in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, 5 in August 2017, which led to the release of hazardous materials and a fire, brought attention to potential safety ...