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 ...

A Los Angeles-bound Metrolink Orange County Line train arrives in Fullerton, Calif., on Jan. 18, 2024. Metrolink will suspend service on the southernmost part of the Orange County Line next week ...

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators today asked the Belt Railway of Chicago to explain increases in freight car inventory and dwell at Clearing Yard since the beginning of April. “We are concerned with ...

Point-to-point layouts replicate realistic railroad operations, focusing on the journey of moving a train from an origin to a destination… ...

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

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 ...

2-10-2 3012 leads a train of anthracite along the Schuylkill River at Tamaqua, Pa., in July 1953. RDG’s 20 K-1’s were the heaviest Santa Fe types ever built. Classic Trains collection Reading Company, ...

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Norfolk Southern will operate six specially painted locomotives in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence. NS ATLANTA — Norfolk Southern today unveiled illustrations of its six ...

Southbound Lincoln Service train no. 303, including Horizon equipment (two cars nearest the camera), ambles down 3rd Street in Springfield, Ill., on Nov. 16, 2016. The cars have spent most of their ...

OK, time for a show of hands. How many of you enjoy ballasting? That’s what I expected. Ballasting isn’t an aspect of the hobby most modelers enjoy. However, I’ve ballasted parts or all of several ...

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, ...