A man operating a piece of farm equipment was killed and two Union Pacific crew members were injured Monday in a collision at a private grade crossing northwest of Marysville. According to the Kansas ...

CORINNE, Utah — Union Pacific’s locomotive honoring President Donald Trump made its debut on Tuesday, leading a train hauling ...

A floor plan and cutaway view of the track area at Grand Central Madison. NEW YORK — “Putting it Together” (Trains Magazine, July 2023) — a look at major commuter rail projects in the New York area — ...

WASHINGTON — Citing the need to finally attack a multi-billion dollar backlog of century-old Northeast Corridor bridge and tunnel replacements, Amtrak CEO Bill Flynn followed President Joe Biden’s ...

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The beginning of it all: 150-hp Chicago Great Western gas-electric M-300, built in 1924, was the first railcar sold by Electro-Motive and founder H. L. Hamilton. The pioneering doodlebug motorcar was ...

MECCA, Calif. — About 20 cars of a Union Pacific intermodal train derailed Wednesday in the Coachella Valley community of Mecca on Wednesday afternoon, closing a state highway and the railroad’s ...

BNSF and Union Pacific trains meet at the Santa Fe Junction Flyover in Kansas City, Mo., in 2018. BNSF is urging regulators to reject the revised UP-Norfolk Southern merger application as incomplete.

The Illinois Terminal Railroad might be one of the most misunderstood Class 1 railroads of the 20th century. If you think “the I.T.,” as most called it, was just a creaky electric interurban that gave ...

Barr Yard in Riverdale, Ill., shown here in August 2017, is CSX’s main carload facility in the Chicago area. Steve Smedley JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX has significantly reduced operations at Barr Yard 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 ...

Having six intercity passenger terminals at one time, and that doesn’t include the electric interurbans, is a muscle flex to Chicago’s claim as the nation’s railroad capital. That is also why former ...