Government inspections of railroads that haul volatile crude oil across the United States have uncovered almost 24,000 safety defects, including problems similar to those blamed in derailments that ...

All of Amtrak's new Acela trains produced so far have manufacturing defects. This could cause increased costs and delays, an Inspector General's report says. The $2.1 billion project is already more ...

Existing defect detection tools using ultrasound rely on phased array ultrasound. In this method, many transducers are pointed in the same direction to generate an image of that specific area. This ...

Dutch Railways NS is implementing dynamic maintenance as they can now view train’s defects from their mixed fleet of trains remotely using the Real Time Monitoring (RTM) system developed using Trimble ...

The safety defects were discovered during targeted federal inspections on almost 58,000 miles of oil train routes in 44 states. The inspection program began two years ago following a string of oil ...