Railway track engineering is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the design, construction, and maintenance of rail infrastructure. A critical component of this endeavour is the ballast, which ...

The sharp, uneven rocks you see beneath railway tracks aren’t there by accident. Known as track ballast, these stones form a crucial layer that keeps the rail system stable, durable and safe, all ...

Railway track transition zones represent critical segments where structural and material properties change abruptly, such as at the interface between ballasted and ballastless (slab) tracks or near ...

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 ...

SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES -- An engineer deliberately ran a train off the tracks at high speed near the Port of Los Angeles in an attempt to crash into and damage the USNS Mercy hospital ship, ...

Transforming one of Sweden’s busiest railway arteries—without pausing a single day of operation—was a challenge for the Fyrspåret Lund–Arlöv project team. Stretching 11 km between Lund and Arlöv, the ...