Two former coal mining sites in Schuylkill County that suffered heavy environmental damage during those operations decades ago and were then abandoned, will now be restored through two state grants ...

A bike repair workshop is giving abandoned bikes a new lease of life - as well as teaching people valuable skills. The TAG Bike Workshop in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, refurbishes second-hand cycles ...

As the U.S. Department of Transportation notes that for nearly two centuries, “railroads have been an indispensable part of America’s economy, society and way of life.” That indispensability wasn’t ...

In the remote countryside of New Zealand, an abandoned railway has been transformed into a unique travel experience. Visitors drive modified golf carts fitted with steel train wheels, allowing them to ...

Clive, Des Moines, Grimes, Urbandale, West Des Moines and Windsor Heights plan to petition the federal government to turn what may soon be a more than 12-mile stretch of abandoned railroad into a new ...

Scientists have developed a methodology to convert America's half a million abandoned coal mines into long-term pumped hydro energy storage facilities, offering solutions for environmental cleanup, ...

Hidden over a quiet Georgia lake sits an abandoned railroad bridge built around 1926 for the Chattahoochee Valley Railway. Trains crossed this steel truss bridge for decades before the line shut down ...