After 20 years as an aerospace engineer, including 13 years at SpaceX, Matt Soule sought a new transportation challenge he could channel into a startup. He chose electric battery autonomous freight ...

Trains come and go from Houston every day, carrying the things that end up in stores and factories around the region. None of them get the attention or attract the crowds of Union Pacific’s Big Boy.

A train that drives itself might sound like the future, but it’s already happening. A Los Angeles startup named Parallel Systems is building autonomous rail cars designed to move goods without a ...

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...