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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 ...

Amtrak’s westbound Sunset Limited ascends the Huey P. Long Bridge in New Orleans as a Union Pacific train slowly descends in February 2025. Bill Stephens HOUSTON — A short line holding company has ...

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 ...

Atlas Model Railroad Co. is offering its Pullman-Standard 4,427-cubic-foot capacity three-bay covered hopper in a variety of new paint schemes.… ...

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 ...

Starting its nearly half century of service, EMD GP15-1 locomotives are still going strong on regional short lines around the country as proof that old EMDs can still pull todays manifest traffic.

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, ...

4-8-2 2605, a product of IC’s own Paducah (Ky.) shops, leads a long string of refrigerator cars north on the main line at Peotone, Ill., in the 1940s. Illinois Central Railroad dated from 1851 when it ...

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 ...

For years the Chicago & North Western operated Chicago’s most extensive commuter service. Its three routes were designated West, North, and Northwest. Those names also serve well to group C&NW’s lines ...