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DENTON, Texas — Hulcher Services, the multifaceted rail service company including emergency-response and infrastructure services, has been acquired by New… ...

In the late 1960s E. Hunter Harrison was working in the tower in Frisco’s Tennessee Yard in Memphis when Bill Thompson, the railroad’s operations chief, dropped by. Thompson pointed to the yard tracks ...

A Schnabel car awaits its load outside the Centralia, Wash., Power Plant. Final preparations took several days. Robert W. Scott One may think 89-foot auto racks are large while standing trackside, but ...

2022 steam locomotive list personified: Southern Pacific 4-6-0 No. 18 crosses the Animas River at Silverton on Sept. 3. The California-based locomotive was on loan to the Durango & Silverton for much ...

Burlington Route history begins with the Aurora Branch Railroad, chartered on Feb. 12, 1849, to build a line from Aurora, Ill., to a connection with the Galena & Chicago Union (forerunner of the ...

Railroad dome cars are a gleaming symbol of postwar passenger train status. The streamliner era in North America bookended the World War II era in the U.S., since new streamlined passenger cars were ...

Prior to the time of the streamliners, North American passenger trains were not particularly colorful. Most sleeping cars were Pullman green, although there were exceptions; both the Pennsylvania and ...

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Korean National Railroad Class 2000 GM EMD SW8 No. 2001 at the Korail Busan Rolling Stock Workshop in Busan, South Korea US diesel locomotives in South Korea: The train has been a symbol of power, ...

Amtrak conductor Erik Newsom waves as he prepares to reboard one of the Amtrak Midwest Venture coaches in Joliet, Ill., on Tuesday. The new equipment made its debut on a Lincoln Service round trip ...

The Abraham Lincoln originated as a Western Pacific coach in 1910. The nearly 80-foot-long-car shows the classic Pullman design. Robert W. Scott In early 2023, I had the unique opportunity to take a ...