Railroad executives typically spend a minute or so responding to an analyst question on a quarterly earnings call. But that’s not the case when the topic is the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger ...

The Surface Transportation Board today rejected Union Pacific’s appeal of a decision requiring a recording of a speech by CEO Jim Vena to be made public, and said it has “serious concerns” that Vena’s ...

The so-called Blue Wave voters delivered on Tuesday, with Democratic gains from the U.S. Senate and House through governorships and state legislatures, will put decision makers with new priorities in ...

The schedule has been released for Metra’s annual Holiday Trains, set to operate in December, with tickets going on sale on Monday, Nov. 16. The Northern Illinois Transit Authority announced the Metra ...

NORWOOD, Mass. — Six workers were injured Monday, Nov. 2, in a collision of two maintenance vehicles on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail Franklin/Foxboro line. The workers ...

Carl Swanson shares the story of the last days of the Chicago & North Western’s Cowboy Line across northern Nebraska.

Reading & Northern has relocated operations of its Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway to Nesquehoning from Jim Thorpe, Pa., because of a rockslide that has blocked the rail line west of Jim Thorpe. The R&N ...

WASHINGTON — Union Pacific has appealed the decision of an administrative law judge requiring public release of its video of a speech by UP CEO Jim Vena, and asked the Surface Transportation Board for ...

VIA Rail Canada has completed a four-year, Ca$310 million modernization of its Toronto Maintenance Centre, the company announced today (Monday, Nov. 2). The project involves infrastructure and ...

A potential strike by 250 workers that could affect cargo traffic at the ports of Los Angels and Long Beach has been pushed back after the two sides in the dispute extended their negotiating deadline.

Route 209 near Jim Thorpe and Nesquehoning is closed after part of the roadway collapsed and slid onto railroad tracks below.

Patrick’s Trains, 142 29th St., Wheeling, WV, 26003, offers a custom-run MTH AC4400cw Diesel Locomotive as part of the ...