This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Well, this is becoming an unfortunate trend.

Nobody likes exploding trains, but Americans can’t yet seem to quit their unhealthy relationship with fossil fuels, and so we get exploding trains. Five this year, as a matter of fact. You know who ...

Emergency crew put out fire at Union Pacific railyard involving ‘heavy toxic smoke’ near North Platte, Nebraska (North Platte VFD / Twitter) A train car carrying toxic acid at a Nebraska railyard ...

An explosion outside a train station in Moscow has killed one traffic police officer and injured two others, the Russian Interior Ministry said in a statement. Police had been patrolling their vehicle ...