Tons of sand are being transported to Long Island by rail, all to support the region’s golf courses. Andrew Kaufman, the president of Brookhaven Rail Terminal, said as much as 2,100 tons of sand is ...

When he was growing up, Ryan Pursell's grandfather usually had one or two sand-rail vehicles that were familiar to the 200 or so people living in Stinesville. "I have wanted one since I was a kid," ...

Everything we plow, harvest or mine started as rock and evolved in time. Given enough time, solid rock exposed at the earth's surface is broken down into rock and mineral fragments by weathering into ...

With some beaches in San Clemente so barren from erosion that waves crash up against passing trains, transportation officials are urgently looking to add sand to their plans to protect the troubled ...

Sand is being shipped from a quarry in Palm Springs to San Clemente’s North Beach, a test case to see how the desert grains hold up at the shore. The Orange County Transportation Authority’s initial ...

An Amtrak Surfliner heads south. (File photo courtesy of SANDAG) Officials have marked a key milestone in the effort to protect a coastal rail line that stretches to downtown San Diego. The line ...

The driver in a sand rail crash that killed two people and critically injured two others pled guilty today to criminal charges that could send him to prison for more than seven years. David Rieman, 48 ...