Proposed federal regulations could muffle loud train whistles and spell a good night's sleep for Scott City Councilman Jeff Curnell and others who are routinely bothered by the deafening noise. The ...

Federal regulators wrote in a letter dated earlier this year that pedestrian crossings at train stations should not be included in rules allowing municipalities to implement train horn bans, according ...

Did you know that trains have their own language? I didn’t, either. After trains began sounding their horns in downtown San Diego again recently, I started investigating. Most of downtown lies within ...

Question: I’m curious about why trains use a Morse code signal when approaching crossings. Answer: For anyone confused by that question, next time you’re waiting at a railroad crossing listen to the ...

Former MBTA commuter rail engineer Mark Layman struck and killed a teenager who was walking along the railroad tracks in Beverly in 1999, a tragedy that haunts Layman to this day. Twenty years later, ...