Nobody likes exploding trains, but Americans can’t yet seem to quit their unhealthy relationship with fossil fuels, and so we get exploding trains. Five this year, as a matter of fact. You know who ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Well, this is becoming an unfortunate trend.

Emergency crew put out fire at Union Pacific railyard involving ‘heavy toxic smoke’ near North Platte, Nebraska (North Platte VFD / Twitter) A train car carrying toxic acid at a Nebraska railyard ...