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The Biden administration is investing billions in passenger rail, giving a boost to a potentially important tool for mitigating climate change. However, significant hurdles could slow efforts to get more rail online. Last week, President Biden announced $8.2 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for 10 passenger rail projects, including what the White House described as the “first world-class…

Located on the first floor of the Newmark Civil Engineering Lab in Urbana is an administrative office for a program that ensures the safety and efficiency of railways across the United States.  “We’ve got the longest-running and the largest rail center in the U.S.,” said Riley Edwards, senior lecturer and research scientist in the program. ...

A new rail center could allow UI engineers to improve railroad infrastructure in a variety of ways that professor Christopher Barkan says will become increasingly relevant as time goes on.

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OMAHA, Neb. — Federal investigators announced on Tuesday a special investigation into rail operator Norfolk Southern following a fiery derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border in February and several other accidents, including the death of a train conductor just hours earlier Tuesday. The National Transportation Safety Board said it will begin