Metra has donated F40C No. 614, one of just two such surviving locomotives, to the Illinois Railway Museum. IRM says in a ...

A single modern diesel freight locomotive can deliver upwards of 50 tons of forward force (called tractive effort) into the rails, but it’s somehow able to do that through the tiny contact patches ...

The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have a historic opportunity to revamp America’s transportation sector ...

From the start of the rail renaissance in 2004 through 2008, Norfolk Southern posted the highest margins among US Class I railroads. Its operating ratio (expenses/revenue) deteriorated in 2009 during ...

10 must-visit historic railroad towns will involve a journey through railroading’s past and present in these iconic ...

This is a model train produced by Hornby / Meccano around 1954. It's pretty rusted and the clockwork mechanism was completely seized. I didn't want to disassemble this engine not to damage the ...

You learned from the previous three columns that Troy had a bustling Railroad life until the late 1950’s. Those of us growing ...

"There's a lot of excitement," Andy Spinelli, president of the museum, said this week. "We still have a lot of work to do, ...

Despite labor disruption and wage inflation, CPKC's adjusted OR (excluding merger costs, but including deal amortization) improved to 63.7% in 2024 from 64.4%. Improvement likely came from leverage ...

Designed by F.W. Mellor, who also worked on New York's Grand Central Station, the station opened in 1916. During the ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, left, looks on as Vice President JD Vance speaks at the East Palestine Fire Department as he visits East Palestine, Ohio, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Rebecca Droke/Pool Photo via AP) ...

courtesy Ogden Contemporary Art Center “We spent two full days on abandoned, old, historic railroad sites,” says Rojas. After Galindo found the first rusted spike, he knew what he was looking for.