MECCA, Calif. — About 20 cars of a Union Pacific intermodal train derailed Wednesday in the Coachella Valley community of Mecca on Wednesday afternoon, closing a state highway and the railroad’s ...

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Consolidated Rail Corp., a.k.a. Conrail, history from 1976 to 1999 in the Northeast serving Chicago, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, and Philadelphia ...

Tom Danneman loves trains, but enjoys the West as much. Join him for cinematic railfanning. THE video series helping model railroaders create a sense of place on a model train layout.

An LA Metro light rail train approaches Los Angeles Union Station. Members of California’s congressional delegation have asked for $2 billion to support transit during the 2028 Olympics and ...

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 ...

On a foggy Nov. 8, 2025, Alaska Railroad No. 557 was pulled from its shop in Wasilla, Alaska, outside of Anchorage. Members of the 557 Restoration Co. successfully test fired the locomotive. It was ...

There’s nothing quite like that feeling of running a “first train” on a new model railroad. Although the scenery is still bare benchwork, the look and sound of those first wheels rolling under their ...

Westbound BNSF intermodal trains, including one with a CSX unit in the consist, pause for crew changes in Needles, Calif., in August 2022. Bill Stephens BNSF Railway and CSX today announced an ...

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 ...

A Union Pacific train with UP and Norfolk Southern power crosses UP’s diamond with NS at Momence, Ill., on April 10, 2022. David Lassen Combining Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern into the first ...