I got curious recently: where does one find railroad ties, and could they actually work as landscaping tools? Turns out, the ...

Have you ever seen an out-of-control fire? I have. Seeing flames leaping wild and high, spreading smoke and ash everywhere, was one of the scariest sights ever. Now imagine seeing a fire like that ...

Advances in ultrasound—the same imaging technology that uses sound waves to allow doctors to monitor babies in utero—are being applied by engineers at the University of California San Diego to make ...

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 ...

This daring idea generated a lot of excitement, and soon 400 volunteers built the track in 38 days during the fall of 1984.

Mays Landing's old wooden trestle, a childhood playground, hides a tragic past—a 1880 train crash that claimed many lives, ...

DUNNELLON – Vice Mayor Tim Inskeep on Feb. 11 gave his first report to council, residents and others concerned about the fallout from the Feb. 1 fire that destroyed some of the creosote-treated ...

The Dunnellon City Council held a special meeting Monday, Feb. 9, on the rail tie fire that occurred on Feb. 1 and the cleanup effort and environmental testing process which ...

A special magistrate ruled that CSX violated city codes by storing thousands of creosote-treated railroad ties in Dunnellon. A fire on Feb. 1 burned a large number of the stored railroad ties, ...

The popular Ohio’s Friendliest Train Robbery event features “bandits” on horseback who stage a good-natured holdup of the train, much to the delight of passengers young and old. This bit of theatrical ...

The Florida Department of Environmental protection has approved a plan to clean up a hazardous railroad tie fire in Dunnellon ...

State environmental officials approved CSX Rail’s cleanup plan Monday following a massive fire that burned thousands of ...