je.st
news
Tag: railroad
Big Boys coming through! Locomotives of the Union Pacific Railroad...
2014-05-05 14:16:49| Railroads - Topix.net
Here comes El NiA o: Recent spike in sea temperatures raise fears that a 'significant' weather event is on its way Union Pacific chose the 4014 for restoration because it spent more than 50 years in the friendly climate of California Big Boys are 132 feet long, weigh 1.2million pounds with a full load of fuel and can reach 80mph In its prime, a ... (more)
Crews Try To Extinguish Fire In Pike Railroad Tunnel
2014-05-01 04:11:47| Railroads - Topix.net
Crews were trying on Wednesday to extinguish a fire in a 700-foot-long railroad tunnel in eastern Kentucky.
Tags: fire
tunnel
railroad
pike
Crews try to extinguish fire in railroad tunnel
2014-04-29 17:50:03| Railroads - Topix.net
Pike County Emergency management Director Doug Tackett told WYMT-TV that firefighters stopped battling the flames Monday after concerns about toxic runoff were raised due to a substance used to treat the timbers inside the tunnel.
Tags: fire
tunnel
railroad
crews
Googles self-driving car passes 700,000 accident-free miles, can now avoid cyclists, stop at railroad crossings
2014-04-29 17:11:35| Extremetech
Google's self-driving cars, of which there are usually a dozen on the roads of California and Nevada at any given time, have now logged 700,000 miles of awesome accident-free autonomous driving. To celebrate, Google has released a new video that demonstrates some impressive software improvements that have been made over the last two years: Most notably, its self-driving cars can now track hundreds of objects simultaneously, including pedestrians, an indicating cyclist, a stop sign held by a crossing guard, or traffic cones. You really should watch the video -- it's one of the coolest bits of tech that I've seen in a long time.
Railroad industry: crude oil tank cars inadequate for flammable cargo, McClatchy reports
2014-04-24 13:12:17| Railroads - Topix.net
The Gulf Gateway Terminal opened at the Port of New Orleans in May 2013 in order to receive shipments of crude oil by rail from Canadian and U.S. Locations and send it by barge to refineries.
Tags: reports
industry
cars
oil
Sites : [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] next »