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 ...

A DART Orange Line light rail train waits at DFW Airport after completing its run. DART has received a $70 million federal grant for new light rail equipment. David Lassen DALLAS — Dallas Area Rapid ...

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 ...

During eastern leg of its Coast-to-Coast tour Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 makes a whistle stop in Continental, Ohio. Throughout the trip, large crowds and heavy traffic have greeted the world’s ...

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Twenty-four cars were involved in this March 18, 2026, derailment in Richmond, Texas. Union Pacific via National Transportation Safety Board WASHINGTON — Seven tank cars were breached, releasing about ...

The Greenbrier Cos. and TTX unveiled America 250 patriotic boxcars on March 31, 2026, at the Greenbrier maintenance facility in Cleburne, Texas. Lance Lassen CLEBURNE, Texas — Freight car manufacturer ...

WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board’s order requiring Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern to provide additional internal documents as part of the review of their proposed merger is a ...

Southern Railway No. 4501, part of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum collection, will be emerge from its annual inspection wearing the classic green paint seen here. The locomotive will wear this ...

Shown here shunting at Hove — note the distinctive foot bridge which spanned both the goods yard and the platforms — is London, Brighton & South Coast E2 Class 0-6-0T no. 109, which was the last of ...

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 ...