Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

The dairy cows along Steamboat Slough in southern Sonoma County are used to the rumble of long, loud freight trains passing through on the Northwestern Pacific tracks, but they all turned their heads ...

In the past few years, the railway industry has been willing to at least consider technologies once thought to be unusual or unconventional—autonomous or semi-autonomous freight and passenger trains, ...