JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Short line holding company Patriot Rail today announced the appointment of Jason Bradt as its chief operating officer, which it said would strengthen its leadership team as it ...

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 ...

A Union Pacific intermodal train heads west through Elmhurst, Ill., while a merchandise train approaches on the center track on July 7, 2026. David Lassen WASHINGTON — Intermodal traffic set an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In the late 1960s E. Hunter Harrison was working in the tower in Frisco’s Tennessee Yard in Memphis when Bill Thompson, the railroad’s operations chief, dropped by. Thompson pointed to the yard tracks ...

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 ...

Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 passes through Schuyler, Neb., on June 11, 2023, as part of its Home Run Express trip to Omaha, Neb. Dates have been announced for the first leg of the locomotive’s 2026 ...

Get the newest photos, videos, stories, and more from Trains.com brands. Sign-up for email today! When I first encountered the former Pere Marquette Railway as a boy in southwestern Michigan in the ...

The Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger application highlights projected increases in traffic on the new railroad’s north-south spine, as well as planned capacity improvements. Trains.com, ...