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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Solar panels on the road. What could go wrong? This tech may seem like a good idea to create sustainable energy, but it isn't quite ready for the real world.

Solar panels are being rolled out “like carpet” on railway tracks in Switzerland. Swiss start-up Sun-Ways is installing panels near Buttes train station in the west of the country in May, pending sign ...