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On January 6, 2005, a freight train rolled through the darkness toward Graniteville, South Carolina. The crew had no reason to suspect that something was terribly wrong with the tracks ahead. But s…

On a cold, foggy morning in December 1938, a school bus carrying children toward Jordan High School in Utah approached a railroad crossing. The driver had made this trip many times before. But on D…

Before Andrew Carnegie became one of the wealthiest men in American history, he recognized something that would transform the country: America’s future would be built with steel—and muc…

A railroad rail doesn’t look particularly complicated until you try to move one. Then you remember: steel is heavy. A standard 39- to 40-foot stick of rail can weigh anywhere from 1,000 to ne…