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A westbound Union Pacific manifest freight rolls past the College Avenue Metra station in Wheaton, Ill., on April 22, 2026. UP CEO Jim Vena says the railroad is preparing to provide additional merger ...

LANCING, Tenn. — A Norfolk Southern train including cars carrying ethanol derailed and caught fire in a remote area of Morgan County, Tenn., leading to precautionary evacuations. The derailment ...

Images from an Amtrak presentation show the “voids” — air pockets in the concrete lining of the East River Tunnel — that have posed a problem for installation of the new catenary system during ...

DARIEN, Conn. — Derek Taylor has joined Genesee & Wyoming as chief operating officer, the company announced today (Monday, June 15). Taylor most recently served as executive vice president and chief ...

The City of Omaha will build a $140 million soccer stadium on land it has purchased from Union Pacific. Note the passenger cars visible to the left of the stadium, on the track used for UP’s “Home ...

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Helmstetter’s Curve was a famous photo location on the former Western Maryland RR, and continues to be one of the scenic highlights for viewing trains operated by today’s Western Maryland Scenic ...

In the 1830s, shortly after the establishment of the first railroads in the U.S., the Post Office Department began to ship mail by rail. The year 1838 saw some sorting of mail en route between ...

A New York Central J-3 Hudson gallops east at Camelot, N.Y., with train 38, the Missourian, in June 1940. The New York Central was a large railroad, and it had several subsidiaries whose identity ...

Rio Grande dome car Silver Sky brings up the markers at Grand Junction, Colo., in March 1974. Mel Lawrence, George W. Hamlin collection Following the delivery of dome cars constructed for the Union ...