Not all of them have led to water contamination or other pollution, but now a series of high-profile train derailments around the country is focusing new attention on this old problem.

That progress you see in the above three maps was because of the steam engine. 1830 gave us Tom Thumb ... we could build the transcontinental railroad, the Civil War broke out, which temporarily ...

JUPITER — Virgin Trains USA plans to essentially replace a 100-year-old rail bridge over the Loxahatchee River. Everything above the current bridge’s supports, consisting of piles and pilecaps ...

The tragic death of 39-year-old Robinson Lalin, who was killed Sunday after he became trapped in a door of a Red Line subway car, raised questions about the aging fleet of trains at the MBTA.