MINNEAPOLIS — BNSF Railway CEO Katie Farmer cautioned the short line industry about the potential impacts of a Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger today, saying that the combined railroads “would be ...

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The Buckingham Branch Railroad will host a rare-mileage excursion between Lousia, Doswell, and Gordonsville, Va., in April. This is an opportunity to ride along 50 miles of the original Chesapeake & ...

Trees downed by a January ice storm have complicated efforts to restart service on the North Mississippi & Alabama Railroad, a short line that has been out of service since 2022. NM&A TISHOMINGO, Miss ...

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 ...

Federal regulators have rejected the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger application as incomplete. David Lassen WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board today issued a setback to Union Pacific ...

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Sound Transit opened this extension to Lynnwood, Wash., in August 2024. Now facing a potential $30 billion long-term shortfall, other extension plans are being reconsidered. Sound Transit SEATTLE — At ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Among the 69 projects receiving Federal Railroad Administration Corridor Identification and Development Program grants last December was a familiar route: Chicago-Quad Cities. Familiar ...

BNSF SD70MAC No. 9400 has been donated to the Illinois Railway Museum. IRM/John McCulloch UNION, Ill. — The first U.S. production AC-traction locomotive, BNSF Railway SD70MAC No. 9400, has been ...