A Union Pacific intermodal train heads west through Elmhurst, Ill., while a merchandise train approaches on the center track on July 7, 2026. David Lassen WASHINGTON — Intermodal traffic set an ...

CONWAY, Pa. — The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a Tuesday, Sept. 8, incident in which a Norfolk Southern conductor suffered severe injuries, the board said in a social media ...

Amtrak’s westbound Sunset Limited ascends the Huey P. Long Bridge in New Orleans as a Union Pacific train slowly descends in February 2025. Bill Stephens HOUSTON — A short line holding company has ...

Atlas Model Railroad Co. is offering its Pullman-Standard 4,427-cubic-foot capacity three-bay covered hopper in a variety of new paint schemes.… ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Vermont Rail System’s Green Mountain Railroad is receiving $10.9 million in federal disaster funding to aid in… ...

Two Horizon trainsets used in Hiawatha service are coupled back-to-back in Amtrak’s Chicago coach yard Wednesday afternoon, March 26. To the left is the rear of the Lake Shore Limited equipment and ...

Amtrak Amfleet cars were the first of the National Passenger Railroad Corporation’s own passenger cars in the 1970s. They were and are, useful, flexible cars that have served the railroad for decades.

Train 99, the Coast Daylight, sails through Santa Barbara, Calif., in the early 1950s. Matching the colors of the train is GS-4-class 4-8-4 No. 4452, one of 28 built for Southern Pacific by Lima in ...

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 ...

Pan Am Southern train EDPL, which runs between East Deerfield, Mass., and Plainville, Conn., rolls through Hartford, Conn., in February 2022. Genesee & Wyoming subsidiary Berkshire & Eastern has yet ...

The original Pennsylvania Railroad ran from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. Much of its subsequent expansion was accomplished by leasing or purchasing other railroads. Construction began in 1847. Two ...

Grade crossings you can model are scene enhancers that you should consider adding to your list of projects. “Why a grade crossing?” you may ask. “I’d rather work on a locomotive, freight car, ...