Businesses along Tempe’s light-rail line are urging the city to ditch plans for gravel along the track in favor of concrete — an upgrade that would cost millions. Merchants and homeowners along Apache ...

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 ...

Bad concrete and a failed fix to the supports that hold up the rails have forced the lengthy delay in construction on Interstate 90 (I-90), and Sound Transit doesn’t expect to open light rail across ...

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 ...

DENVER, Aug. 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vossloh Tie Technologies, a division of Vossloh North America, has opened a major rail products manufacturing facility in Monte Lake, BC to produce ...

L.B. Foster Company FSTR, a leading global technology solutions provider for the rail and infrastructure markets, has announced the completion of the sale of substantially all the assets of its ...

Sound Transit projects could lose momentum because of the Seattle area’s ongoing strike by concrete truck drivers, agency’s CEO Peter Rogoff said Thursday. Federal Way, Lynnwood, Bellevue and downtown ...