If Hollywood studios are short of ideas for action movies they could do a lot with the Australian iron ore ghost train that yesterday ran for 60 miles without a driver before being deliberately ...

High above the Verde River, the train snakes along basalt cliffs and rugged red rock walls, its elevated tracks following the curve of the slow-moving water below. Remnants of Indian dwellings appear ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An emergency crew called out to manually apply handbrakes to a 268-car iron ore train in the Australian outback mistakenly put the brakes on the wrong train, according to a ...

Iron ore mining is a dirty industry, not just because of the extraction and processing of material, but due to the transportation of it as well. Thankfully, steps are being taken to make ore ...

A train carrying raw material derailed in California on Monday, according to San Bernardino County fire officials. There were no passengers on the Union Pacific train, but multiple cars containing ...

Recently, as I was watching trucks negotiating our late spring snowstorms, I thought about how different it was for trains. Going back to before there were trucks, how did stuff get where it was ...

A goods train derailed at SAIL's Gua siding in Jharkhand, disrupting freight trains to the iron ore mine. The incident ...

BHP Billiton Ltd. expects to take about a week to recover from the derailment of one of its iron ore trains that’s halted its rail operations in Western Australia, potentially bolstering prices of the ...

KELSO, Calif. -- A train hauling iron ore with 55 cars derailed in the Mojave Desert Monday. While fuel was leaking from the derailed train, there were no other hazardous-materials threats, according ...

A train derailed along the Columbia River near the city of Scappoose, Ore., today, triggering a fire that sent a plume of smoke into the air that was visible across the river in Clark County. The fire ...

It gets hot in the Australian outback; like, really hot. We're talking "130 degrees fahrenheit in the shade" sort of hot -- definitely not the sort of place that many people would want to even visit, ...