Leaving Kamloops, B.C., 14 hours late after laying over the previous evening, VIA’s westbound 21-car Canadian snakes around the curve at Kissick, B.C., 9 miles west of Kamloops, on May 17, 2026. The ...

But things went smoothly in Boston, where the MBTA delivered fans to and from the World Cup match in Foxborough A New York-bound NJ Transit train departs Secaucus Junction in August 2019. NJT says it ...

Union Pacific No. 1616, which honors President Abraham Lincoln for signing the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 that created UP, sits at the railroad’s Jenks Locomotive Shop. Could the stroke of President ...

A diagram from the “CX Vision” portion of Amtrak’s long-distance request for proposals shows proposed features of the lounge space in a combined lounge-diner. Amtrak WASHINGTON — Amtrak is asking for ...

Barr Yard in Riverdale, Ill., shown here in August 2017, is CSX’s main carload facility in the Chicago area. Steve Smedley JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX has significantly reduced operations at Barr Yard in ...

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 departs Marshall, Texas, in November 2019. Jim Wrinn OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific plans to send Big Boy No. 4014 on a transcontinental trip next year as part of the ...

WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board has launched merger resources pages on its website just a day after Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern confirmed that they are engaged in advanced talks ...

Rio Grande dome car Silver Sky brings up the markers at Grand Junction, Colo., in March 1974. Mel Lawrence, George W. Hamlin collection Following the delivery of dome cars constructed for the Union ...

The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway has unveiled its locomotive to commemoriate the 250th anniversary of American independence in 2026. Wheeling & Lake Erie The W&LE says the design ensures the full red, ...

A Metra Union Pacific West train passes a stopped UP freight at La Fox, Ill., on Oct. 19, 2024. Metra has assumed operation of trains on its three UP commuter lines. David Lassen CHICAGO — Metra has ...

Lionel’s No. 671 Pennsylvania RR S2 steam turbine is one of the classic O gauge locomotives of the postwar era. Lionel released it for the first full product line of the post-World War II era in 1946.