A slope failure on the Green Mountain Railroad at East Wallingford, Vt., is just part of the damage the railroad sustained in 2023 flooding. Vermont Rail System BURLINGTON, Vt. — Vermont Rail System’s ...

Amtrak’s westbound Sunset Limited ascends the Huey P. Long Bridge in New Orleans as a Union Pacific train slowly descends in February 2025. Bill Stephens HOUSTON — A short line holding company has ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Railroad Administration today published new rules on a variety of topics — ranging from horn-sounding requirements to virtual training for brake systems — as part of what the ...

Workers drill into rock at the Palisades Portal site for the Hudson Tunnel project on Aug. 17, 2026. The Trump administration is appealing a decision blocking it from withholding funds for the tunnel ...

Locomotives wearing Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, and Denver & Rio Grande Western paint meet at Princeton Siding on Tennessee Pass in 1997. The line was idled later that year. Chris Guss WASHINGTON ...

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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, ...

Colebrookdale Railroad’s rebirth started with a determined man and a supportive community. In addition to the construction of the station building seen here at Boyertown on Sept. 7, 2021, the railroad ...

A diagram from the “CX Vision” portion of Amtrak’s long-distance request for proposals shows proposed features of the lounge space in a combined lounge-diner. Amtrak WASHINGTON — Amtrak is asking for ...

The beginning of it all: 150-hp Chicago Great Western gas-electric M-300, built in 1924, was the first railcar sold by Electro-Motive and founder H. L. Hamilton. The pioneering doodlebug motorcar was ...

Railroad dome cars are a gleaming symbol of postwar passenger train status. The streamliner era in North America bookended the World War II era in the U.S., since new streamlined passenger cars were ...

The best-selling Fairbanks-Morse diesel locomotives came from the builder’s “H” series of hood units. Even though Fairbanks-Morse built relatively few diesels compared to EMD or Alco, FM locomotives ...