Hauling iron ore across Australia’s outback pays some 400 engineers about $224,000 per year, but the gravy train is coming to an end thanks to robots. International mining giant Rio Tinto Group plans ...

Hard rock mining company Fortescue Williams has adopted electric trains that can generate enough power to never need recharging. The company recently explained that four of its trains can generate ...

Riverbank and Oakdale officials are keeping their eyes on a plan to open a quarry in Tuolumne County. The focus of their concern: the trains that would haul the crushed rock from the open-pit mine and ...

Iron ore mining is a dirty industry, not just because of the extraction and processing of material, but due to the transportation of it as well. Thankfully, steps are being taken to make ore ...

On Monday, Australian authorities intentionally derailed a runaway mining train that escaped the control of its operator. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau outlined the incident in a report ...

Why do you think the calculation of braking effort is different because you have greater mass. Why do you think having more of the same monitors on the couplings and brakes scales in complexity?