A westbound Union Pacific manifest freight rolls past the College Avenue Metra station in Wheaton, Ill., on April 22, 2026. UP CEO Jim Vena says the railroad is preparing to provide additional merger ...

BNSF and Union Pacific trains meet at the Santa Fe Junction Flyover in Kansas City, Mo., in 2018. BNSF is urging regulators to reject the revised UP-Norfolk Southern merger application as incomplete.

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 ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is dispatching an investigator to the derailment of a Canadian National train today (March 12) near Leross, Saskatchewan, the TSB has ...

Canada’s Alto high-speed rail project, which is currently in the process of determining the exact route for the Toronto-Montreal-Quebec City project, is running into growing local opposition along its ...

The parent company of Round 2, Praesidian, has announced their intent to acquire Lionel Trains. The following press release was shared with the editorial staff of Classic Toy Trains: As you may have ...

The California high-speed project’s railhead facility, where materials will be delivered before being shipped to rail construction sites, is shown in September 2025. California High-Speed Rail ...

Wabtec-modernized Union Pacific C44ACM No. 6534 leads a unit tank-car train at Elmhurst, Ill., on July, 14, 2023. UP has signed a $1.2 billion deal with Wabtec for further modernizations. David Lassen ...

An original Metroliner cab car zips through Princeton Junction, N.J., with New York-bound Keystone Service train No. 644 on Aug. 29, 2025. It was produced in the 1960s by the Budd Company and is ...

OWENSVILLE, Ind. — A Norfolk Southern engineer and conductor were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries following a derailment this morning in Owensville, Ind. Responding to an ...

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 ...

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.