TACOMA, Wash. — There are probably more glamorous places to spend a summer day than a track side parking lot in Chehalis, but there's no place my teenage son, Cooper, would rather be right now.

Cameras were aimed at the approaching train as a cluster of people gathered on both sides of the railroad tracks along Ferry Street. Their anticipation was not for a celebrity, politician or even a ...

On a balmy Sunday afternoon late last month Richard Whitenight did what he often does on his days off He went to a busy railroad junction in Fort Worth Texas to watch the trains roll by. But as he sat ...

Jim Boyd, editor of Railfan & Railroad magazine from the magazine’s launch in 1974 until 1998, died last week at age 69. Boyd continued as editor emeritus of the magazine, and also was author of the ...

For reasons that later became obvious, a 27-year-old man in Quincy, Illinois, left his Dodge Challenger Hellcat on a set of ...

“It’s on the Y chromosome, I think,” Wolff said, laughing, explaining that male rail fans outnumber female ones. “It may be latent, but it’s there. It got me when I moved to Chicago in 1979 because ...

One small word keeps coming up among those anticipating this week's historic visitor to Eastern Iowa. 'This is obviously kind of a big deal,' said Darren Ferreter. 'This is a big deal,' echoed Nick ...