WASHINGTON — The Federal Railroad Administration today published new rules on a variety of topics — ranging from horn-sounding requirements to virtual training for brake systems — as part of what the ...

Workers drill into rock at the Palisades Portal site for the Hudson Tunnel project on Aug. 17, 2026. The Trump administration is appealing a decision blocking it from withholding funds for the tunnel ...

Locomotives wearing Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, and Denver & Rio Grande Western paint meet at Princeton Siding on Tennessee Pass in 1997. The line was idled later that year. Chris Guss WASHINGTON ...

Labor Day is right around the corner, making August 31st–September 4th your ultimate last-chance summer getaway! Trade swatting mosquitoes and dodging poison ivy for the cool comfort of a basement ...

An aerial view of the scene of a collision between a train and truck on Aug. 6, 2026, that seriously injured a CSX conductor. Google Earth with NTSB notations WASHINGTON — The CSX conductor seriously ...

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Facts and features Name: Union Pacific in the Cascades Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 11′-6″ x 16′-6″ Prototype: Union Pacific Locale:… Facts and features Name: The Portsmouth & Androscoggin RR Scale: HO (1 ...

Q: I’m interested in John Allen’s Gorre & Daphetid and want a lot of info, such as a locomotive roster… ...

Riding Amtrak’s Palmetto on the home stretch: The passengers and crew of Amtrak’s southbound Palmetto have their last stretch stop in Florence, S.C. before the final 21/2-hour run to Savannah. David ...

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 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 ...

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, ...