Leaving Kamloops, B.C., 14 hours late after laying over the previous evening, VIA’s westbound 21-car Canadian snakes around the curve at Kissick, B.C., 9 miles west of Kamloops, on May 17, 2026. The ...

Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific locomotives lead a westbound CPKC freight at Brookfield, Wis., on July 9, 2026. David Lassen A Union Pacific executive said this week in a message to shippers ...

A South Shore train from Chicago’s Millennium Station to Munster/Dyer heads through downtown Hammond, Ind., on July 7, 2026, on the viaduct over the Grand Calumet River, Indiana Harbor Belt, and ...

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Rocky Mountain Steel Mills will provide the railroad with long rail produced at its new $1 billion mill in Pueblo, Colo. Union Pacific tracks at MP 92.85 on the UP Geneva Subdivision in Nachusa, Ill.

4-8-2 2605, a product of IC’s own Paducah (Ky.) shops, leads a long string of refrigerator cars north on the main line at Peotone, Ill., in the 1940s. Illinois Central Railroad dated from 1851 when it ...

Chesapeake & Ohio No. 614 in the dissembling phase at the Strasburg Rail Road’s Mechanical Department facility in the fall of 2025. RJD America LLC looks to keep the restoration’s momentum going in ...

Getting started in model railroading can be a daunting task, even for those with experience and knowledge regarding prototype (i.e. real-life) railroading. We’ve been asked in the past what we at ...

EMD DDA40X: In 1968, Union Pacific purchased 50 20-cylinder, 3,600 hp EMD SD45s for high-speed service. However, the units did not meet management’s expectations in that role. So, UP commissioned EMD ...

Testors has announced that it is ending its Floquil and Polly Scale lines of paints, including dozens of model-railroad specific colors. Testors will continue to take orders from retailers and ship ...

Is there a more dignified railroad name than “Lackawanna?” Certainly, Lackawanna history evokes many images. In the days of steam, the name meant meticulous track supporting well-proportioned, ...

Fairbanks-Morse’ distinctive Erie-Built diesel locomotives were the builder’s entry into the six-axle passenger locomotive market. FM sold 111 total units between December 1945 and February 1949. They ...