A preliminary rendering of a Stadler locomotive for VIA Rail Canada. The final design may vary. VIA Rail Canada MONTREAL — The Canadian government will spend Ca$1.6 billion (U.S. $1.14 billion) to buy ...

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CPKC has received the last of the 170 new ET44AC locomotives ordered from Wabtec. CPKC CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific Kansas City has received the final locomotive in its 170-unit order for ...

Opponents and critics of Union Pacific’s proposed acquisition of Norfolk Southern today welcomed the Surface Transportation Board’s skeptical look at the railroads’ revised merger application.

When Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 rolled into the East on Norfolk Southern rails this year — the 4-8-8-4’s first visit since leaving the American Locomotive Co.’s Schenectady, N.Y., plant in 1941 — ...

BNSF and Union Pacific trains meet at the Santa Fe Junction Flyover in Kansas City, Mo., in 2018. BNSF is urging regulators to reject the revised UP-Norfolk Southern merger application as incomplete.

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An Intramotev TugVolt autonomous hopper car. The company has announced an agreement with R.J. Corman Railroad Co. Intramotev ST. LOUIS — Autonomous railcar company Intramotev has announced a ...

NEW YORK — Amtrak has experienced another significant round of equipment-related train cancellations, with some 20 trains scrubbed before the start of operations today (Feb. 5) on the Northeast ...

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 ...

A second major merger is not inevitable if the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern combination wins regulatory approval, BNSF CEO Katie Farmer says BNSF CEO Katie Farmer, left, talks with Monica Freeman of ...

Atlas Model Railroad Co., Inc., 378 Florence Ave., Hillside, NJ 07205, has announced two patriotic-themed SD40-2 diesel locomotives as part of the Premier line. The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway No.