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Amtrak conductor Erik Newsom waves as he prepares to reboard one of the Amtrak Midwest Venture coaches in Joliet, Ill., on Tuesday. The new equipment made its debut on a Lincoln Service round trip ...

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 ...

The Atchison & Topeka Railroad was chartered in 1859 to join the towns of its title and continue southwest toward Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Santa Fe” was added to the corporate name in 1863. Construction ...

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 ...

Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 departs Marshall, Texas, in November 2019. Jim Wrinn OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific plans to send Big Boy No. 4014 on a transcontinental trip next year as part of the ...

Rock Island history is a mighty good history. In 1847 the Rock Island & La Salle Rail Road was chartered to build between Rock Island, Ill., on the Mississippi River, and La Salle, where connections ...

Grade crossings you can model are scene enhancers that you should consider adding to your list of projects. “Why a grade crossing?” you may ask. “I’d rather work on a locomotive, freight car, ...

Maine Central train YR-1 (St. Johnsbury, Vt.-South Portland, Maine) passes the still-active freight office at Gilman, Vt., July 23, 1983, Through train service on the 131-mile Mountain Subdivision ...

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 ...

Two remanufactured British railcars, prototypes for the Pop Up Metro project, await operation in Rockhill, Pa. Dan Zukowski)= ROCKHILL, Pa. — Rail entrepreneur Henry Posner wants to make passenger ...