With added dramatic lighting for a photo session, former Union Pacific 2-10-2 No. 5511 sits in the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America backshop at Silvis, Ill. On its return to operation, the ...
Visitors check out equipment on display at InnoTrans 2026. At left is a new Alstom Intercity EMU built for Italy; at right is CRRC’s Vellink subway train. Keith Fender BERLIN — InnoTrans, the largest ...
NOVI, Mich. — CSX is planning to abolish 165 maintenance-of-way positions and furlough more than 1,000 workers, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division has announced. In a post on its ...
Resident Carmine Giso makes a point during a Sept. 17 meeting on Amtrak’s proposed Chicago maintenance facility, eliciting a positive reaction from project opponents. Bob Johnston CHICAGO — Amtrak’s ...
A Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern train works in Kankakee, Ill., on April 11, 2022. Pinsly Railroad Co. is acquiring the short line serving Indiana and Illinois. David Lassen WASHINGTON — Pinsly ...
A preliminary rendering of new VIA Rail Canada long-distance equipment. Engineering and consulting firm Jacobs will support VIA’s acquisition of its new Alstom passenger cars and Stadler locomotives.
WASHINGTON — Amtrak and Canadian National have reached a new host railroad operating agreement that settles a dispute dating to 2013. The railroads said today that the agreements “strengthen their ...
WASHINGTON — The North American Rail Shippers Association will hold its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., for the first time. The meeting is set for Nov. 11-13, with the theme of “Navigating Change ...
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — High diesel fuel prices are prompting more shippers to send their freight from the highway to rail, Norfolk Southern executives told an investor conference today. As trucking ...
Two Colorado firms have developed a fire-mitigation system that can prevent wildfires from encroaching onto railroad rights of way. Matrix Wildfire has developed the SENTINEL apparatus that can ...
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 ...
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern expect to file their revised merger application on April 30, as planned, UP CEO Jim Vena said on the railroad’s earnings call today. The railroads are ...