Penn State Altoona rail trans­portation engineering professor Shihui Shen was conferred one of Penn State’s 10 dis­­­­ting­uished professors this year. Courtesy photo Penn State Altoona rail ...
A research team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has found a way to stop concrete rail ties from cracking under heavy train traffic. Led by civil and environmental engineering professor ...
A concrete tie deforming under the weight of rail traffic. The arrow indicates where SMAs were inserted to demonstrate adaptive reinforcement. In railroad tracks, rail ties hold the rails in place and ...
Participate in the development of rail transportation and related engineering skills for the 21st century through an interdisciplinary and collaborative program that aligns Michigan Tech Faculty and ...
The Pennsylvania Senate Transportation Committee held its meeting at the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona on Wednesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Penn State has been in the ...
Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific are looking to merge, which would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. The deal still needs to be approved by regulators, but many in Altoona are ...
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is reviving an ambitious light-rail project to connect Brooklyn and Queens with plans to spend up to $100 million on engineering. The $5.5 billion ...
Federal Railroad Administration releases $58 million for preliminary engineering for the S-line project that was announced four years ago.
The Panvel–Karjat rail corridor, a new strategic railway link in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, has achieved a key milestone with the completion of a 2.6 kilometre tunnel through the Matheran hills.