The U.S. Senate today (Aug. 7) confirmed the nomination of Karen Hedlund for a second term on the Surface Transportation Board. Hedlund was renominated by President Donald Trump on May 11, 2025. Her ...

Canada’s Alto high-speed rail project, which is currently in the process of determining the exact route for the Toronto-Montreal-Quebec City project, is running into growing local opposition along its ...

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Between 2019 and 2024, Model Railroader magazine commissioned a line of limited-edition, custom-decorated rolling stock for the Milwaukee, Racine &… ...

Maine Central train YR-1 (St. Johnsbury, Vt.-South Portland, Maine) passes the still-active freight office at Gilman, Vt., July 23, 1983, Through train service on the 131-mile Mountain Subdivision ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Atchison & Topeka Railroad was chartered in 1859 to join the towns of its title and continue southwest toward Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Santa Fe” was added to the corporate name in 1863. Construction ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Trains Magazine, the company’s other rail magazines, and Trains.com are among assets that have been sold by Kalmbach Media to Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Firecrown Media, the two ...

Erie Railroad history starts, surprisingly, with a canal. Erie 4-6-2 No. 2548 thunders east through the New Jersey Meadowlands at East Rutherford on March 23, 1953. Erie steam would last one more year ...

In general terms, America is not a country with great affinity for nationalization. The machinations of the American economy are diametrically opposed to the principles of nationalization. However, ...

A Long Island Rail Road train of Kawasaki M9 cars arrives at New Hyde Park in November 2022. A second Presidential Emergency Board has made its recommendations in an ongoing labor dispute between the ...