Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern file a comprehensive merger application with the Surface Transportation Board to create America’s first transcontinental railroad.

Two of the largest U.S. railroad unions oppose the proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, raising concerns ...

A one-of-a-kind train system that's transported visitors to the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado for 130 years has just gotten a new lease on life. Following a three-year closure and a $100 million, full ...

For more than a century the Somerset and Dorset Railway (S&D) served as a lifeline for rural communities - transporting coal, commuters and holidaymakers alike. The historic line ran between Bath in ...

We have a soft spot for historic trains, the cabooses and locomotives and the rhythm of the rails, punctuated by the toot-toot of — We’d better stop here, before we go all chugga-chugga-choo-choo on ...

After 35 years, the Sacramento Valley Historic Railways is still chugging along — it’s a good thing for Woodland’s historic train depot, which is finally coming up to speed. That depot, located on the ...

David Hughes of Glyndon, a volunteer at the Western Maryland Railway Historical Society, works on restoring the functionality of a telephone system in the museum’s train order office, in Union Bridge ...

Construction of a new ADA compliant restroom has begun at the Historic Woodland Train Depot from a grant obtained by the Luna Vista Rotary Club of Woodland with support from the Sunrise and Woodland ...

Talison Lithium rules out reopening a century-old rail line from the world's biggest lithium mine, despite ongoing complaints ...

DANBURY — The newest additions to the Danbury Railway Museum collection are not only historic: They also represent a period of electric locomotive development that shaped modern-day railroads. The ...

Those three things helped make the cog rail in Manitou Springs happen. The guts came from a Civil War veteran. The smarts were imported from Switzerland. And the money was born of mattresses. A ...

The historic Aln Valley Railway has moved a step closer to the long-held goal of reaching Alnmouth after the cash for repairs to a key bridge on the route was confirmed. The Aln Valley Railway Trust ...