Muni officials now say the damage to couplers linking Muni cars is far more significant than previously known, and the critical connections will have to be redesigned to prevent further failures. "As ...

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RAILWAY AGE, MARCH 2023 ISSUE: Critical components like couplers, draft gears and end-of-car cushioning units must be capable of managing thousands of tons of force. In-train forces—buff and draft—can ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Police investigating the death of a man run over by a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency light rail train early Sunday morning say it appears the victim had been sitting on ...

NBC Bay Area has learned that a failure on the coupler system used on dozens of new Muni trains has prompted the San Francisco transportation agency to order inspections and new restrictions. Until ...

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1873: A U.S. patent is issued for a new automatic railroad coupler. Within 20 years it is the standard car coupler on every American railroad. Its inventor, Eli Janney of Alexandria, Virginia, was a ...

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It's almost the size of a misshapen softball, but it may be the charging combo you will have to use for quick charging on future electric cars. The U.S. Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) is in the ...

Failure of a worn-out component that helps keep train cars together caused 22 freight cars to derail last January in northwestern New Brunswick, says the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. The ...

Equipment failure caused a collision that led to the derailment of 22 cars in Canadian Pacific Railway’s Alyth yard in January 2019, a Transportation Safety Board investigation found. A CP Rail crew ...