CONWAY, Pa. — The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a Tuesday, Sept. 8, incident in which a Norfolk Southern conductor suffered severe injuries, the board said in a social media ...

WASHINGTON — Two additional unions have joined the Stop the Rail Merger Coalition, the group of railroads, shippers, and labor organizations opposing the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern transaction.

A Union Pacific intermodal train heads west through Elmhurst, Ill., while a merchandise train approaches on the center track on July 7, 2026. David Lassen WASHINGTON — Intermodal traffic set an ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Vermont Rail System’s Green Mountain Railroad is receiving $10.9 million in federal disaster funding to aid in… ...

Two Horizon trainsets used in Hiawatha service are coupled back-to-back in Amtrak’s Chicago coach yard Wednesday afternoon, March 26. To the left is the rear of the Lake Shore Limited equipment and ...

How we created a postwar-style layout, from start to finish. Large layouts are cool, no doubt, but we thought that something smaller that combined postwar trains with modern materials also sounded ...

Train 99, the Coast Daylight, sails through Santa Barbara, Calif., in the early 1950s. Matching the colors of the train is GS-4-class 4-8-4 No. 4452, one of 28 built for Southern Pacific by Lima in ...

The train order, variously called the “flimsy” or the “tissue” — together with its attendant operators, train order offices, and order hoops — has been rendered obsolete by the radio, the computer, ...

Wabash Railway history started with the Northern Cross, the first railroad in Illinois, in 1837. I came to know the Wabash well for much of its last decade, before Norfolk & Western absorbed it in ...

In the late 1960s E. Hunter Harrison was working in the tower in Frisco’s Tennessee Yard in Memphis when Bill Thompson, the railroad’s operations chief, dropped by. Thompson pointed to the yard tracks ...

A New York Central J-3 Hudson gallops east at Camelot, N.Y., with train 38, the Missourian, in June 1940. The New York Central was a large railroad, and it had several subsidiaries whose identity ...

Get the newest photos, videos, stories, and more from Trains.com brands. Sign-up for email today! When I first encountered the former Pere Marquette Railway as a boy in southwestern Michigan in the ...