One of the nation's largest railroads must replace millions of defective wooden railroad ties on its tracks because they're degrading faster than expected, the company said in a federal lawsuit.

COMMERCE (CBSLA) – A man was taken into custody after a stack of discarded wooden railroad ties alongside a stretch of Metrolink track in Commerce Monday morning caught fire, less than a block ...

STOCKTON - A crew has returned to the abandoned site of the former McCormick & Baxter Creosoting Co., one ... treating telephone poles and railroad ties with chemicals to prevent rot.

There’s a snag: The railroad is in disrepair. Thousands of ties have failed. Nearly 10 years ago, inspectors X-rayed all 43,437 ties. At the time, 2,443 had failed, 10,000 were near failure and ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — Officials are investigating after a massive pile of railroad ties caught fire Wednesday in Huntington. Huntington Fire Chief Jan Rader said the fire at the CSX ...

Thousands of discarded railroad ties are piled up along the Union Pacific Railroad right of way in Merced, the result of the railroad’s tie replacement project between Turlock and Fresno.

LEBANON — By the time the Albany & Eastern Railroad finishes rebuilding all of its tracks throughout the mid-valley, owner Rick Franklin expects to purchase 200,000 wooden ties treated with an ...

A 124-MILE STRETCH of rail from the New Hampshire-Massachusetts state line to Maine is getting a facelift, as more than 130,000 railroad ties are being replaced in an effort to maintain operating ...

RTA is selling enough used railroad ties to spruce up an entire neighborhood. The agency is seeking bids on 4,500 ties which have been removed in recent years from its rapid transit tracks.

ATLANTA (AP) — One of the nation's largest railroads must replace millions of defective wooden railroad ties on its tracks because they're degrading faster than expected, the company said in a federal ...