A slope failure on the Green Mountain Railroad at East Wallingford, Vt., is just part of the damage the railroad sustained in 2023 flooding. Vermont Rail System BURLINGTON, Vt. — Vermont Rail System’s ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the Amtrak Office of Inspector General calls into question almost all of the $7.8 million spent under a technology services contract for outside staffing, finding poor ...

Rocky Mountain Steel Mills, which produces rail for Union Pacific at its facility in Pueblo, Colo., has reached a new five-year agreement with members of the United Steelworkers. Rocky Mountain Steel ...

Model Railroading Layouts, Tips, Techniques, & More – Plus Online Benefits: Track Plan Database & Workshop Webcam ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get the newest photos, videos, stories, and more from Trains.com brands. Sign-up for email today! PRESERVATION: According to Bess Arnold’s 2004 book, “Union Pacific: Saving a Big Boy and other ...

A Union Pacific train with UP and Norfolk Southern power crosses UP’s diamond with NS at Momence, Ill., on April 10, 2022. David Lassen Combining Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern into the first ...

For years the Chicago & North Western operated Chicago’s most extensive commuter service. Its three routes were designated West, North, and Northwest. Those names also serve well to group C&NW’s lines ...

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 ...