President Donald Trump took a short ride on BNSF Railway on Wednesday, July 1, as he arrived to dedicate the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. The short video below, released by BNSF, shows ...

The effort by Robert Primus to regain his seat on the Surface Transportation Board appears to have been dealt a fatal blow after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today (June 29) that President Donald ...

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No injuries were reported when a CSX train derailed in Bensalem Township, Pa., on Tuesday, June 30. Bensalem Police Department BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Thirteen cars of a 72-car CSX train derailed ...

During eastern leg of its Coast-to-Coast tour Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 makes a whistle stop in Continental, Ohio. Throughout the trip, large crowds and heavy traffic have greeted the world’s ...

Commuter rail service on the South Shore Line has been suspended because of this derailment in Hammond, Ind. Bruce Stahl HAMMOND, Ind. — South Shore Line commuter rail service has been suspended at ...

As the sun sets, Norfolk Southern Dash 8-40CW No. 8343 leads a Union Pacific freight through the Metra station at Oak Park, Ill., on May 23, 2015. David Lassen ATLANTA — Norfolk Southern CEO Mark ...

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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 train order, variously called the “flimsy” or the “tissue” — together with its attendant operators, train order offices, and order hoops — has been rendered obsolete by the radio, the computer, ...

Burlington Route history begins with the Aurora Branch Railroad, chartered on Feb. 12, 1849, to build a line from Aurora, Ill., to a connection with the Galena & Chicago Union (forerunner of the ...

Once we had the L-girders built, it was time to turn our attention to adding the legs and support bracing for the layout. We constructed the legs as simple subassemblies with their own cross bracing.