Southern California is known for its nearly perfect year-round climate, excellent surf, and extremely high cost of living, but once you get away from the coast things are radically different.

Crews working on the tracks near the Orient Heights Station in East Boston could not keep a rail cart where it belonged — on the rails — around 9 a.m. Wednesday, officials said. “The rail ...

The Grand Super Cart sightseeing train was stopped 105 meters in the air on the Takachiho Iron Bridge—the highest railway bridge in all of Japan—on a recent day in mid-December. The ...