Tag: tracks

4Warn Storm Team tracks severe weather across Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA (KFOR) – Severe storms are expected to hit central Oklahoma Monday evening and night. According to KFOR Meteorologist Jon Slater, there is potential for all modes of severe weather, including strong tornadoes. “It’s a Moderate Risk for severe weather across much of Oklahoma on Monday. All modes of severe possible including long track strong […]

Then and Now: Removing streetcar tracks

Apr. 29—Spokane had an early mass transit system that was fueled by hydroelectric power and multiple streetcar services, going back to 1887. When the first electric streetcars appeared, they were powered by new utility company Washington Water Power. It seemed natural for WWP to take over Spokane Street Railways, Spokane Cable Railway and other early […]

New NASA video tracks Mars helicopter’s 72 flights

NASA’s history-making Ingenuity helicopter covered a lot of ground on Mars over the past three years, as a new video shows. The video, which was released on Thursday (April 18) by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), shows where Ingenuity went on each of its 72 Red Planet sorties, linking each flight line together in an […]

New map tool tracks vessels to limit collisions with endangered whales

After several endangered North Atlantic right whales have washed up on beaches this year, including one in Virginia Beach, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have released a real-time analysis map to assess speeding of ocean-going vessels. Douglas McCauley, director of the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at UCSB, said collisions with ships are one of the […]

The latest SWLRT snafu: wrong placement of tracks

On a hunch, Marion Collins took a giant tape measure last December and calculated the distance between light rail and freight rail tracks installed near her Minneapolis home for the Southwest light rail line. Her hunch proved correct — and it turned into the latest snafu dogging construction of the $2.9 billion transit project. Collins […]

NYC subway rider dies after being pushed onto the tracks

A man accused of fatally shoving another person into the path of an oncoming New York City subway train has been described by his mother and officials as having psychological issues. The tragedy has revived discussions about how the city should respond to people experiencing mental health crises within the transit system. The shoving victim, […]