THIS LATEST SHAKEUP TO THE RIDE, BRIANNA ANTOINETTE. THAT’S RIGHT. I MEAN, THIS WAS A MORE THAN $2 BILLION PROJECT AND NOW WE’VE LEARNED THAT THE MTA KNEW ABOUT THESE TRACK ISSUES DURING CONSTRUCTION ...

A new system of keeping track of subway track defects is off the rails, MTA employees say. New York City’s 665 miles of subway tracks are riddled with breaks, cracks and missing bolts — but MTA ...

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the ...

South Dakota officials have expressed concern about remaining defects on the railroad operated by Dakota Southern Railway Company. A South Dakota legislative committee recently discussed an August ...

A series of phone calls secretly recorded by a track inspector-turned-whistleblower at Burlington Northern Santa Fe is raising more questions about the safety culture at Minnesota’s largest railroad. ...

MBTA’s General Manager Phil Eng had few answers to many questions surrounding track defects found on the brand-new Green Line Extension when he appeared before the agency’s board of directors. A ...

The MBTA completed a systemwide track inspection, a preliminary step needed to begin lifting the plethora of speed restrictions that plague each subway line. This inspection and validation process ...

In one of the oldest railroad stories, folk legend John Henry races against a machine hammering holes for the construction of a railroad tunnel, only to die from exhaustion after just barely beating ...