Some small railroads will also get help upgrading to more efficient locomotives. Much of the money comes from the 2021 infrastructure law that President Joe Biden championed. Last year ...

Read about some notable model train products from the 1960s taken from the pages of Model Railroader magazine.

The Sun-Times sent a reporter and photographer on the first run of the Floridian from Chicago to Miami — on one condition. We ...

Loco Motive, appropriately, is a murder mystery set on a moving train. To be precise, its set on the first ever steam-powered ...

CrossCountry. The service, described by CrossCountry as the first of its kind, will roll out as part of the timetable change ...

This is a book about trains and the railways with a difference…one which is told with honesty and humour and we get to meet some great ...

This is a book about trains and the railways with a difference…one which is told with honesty and humour and we get to meet ...

The Napa Valley Wine Train debuted a $2.5 million “green” locomotive at the end of 2023. It’s named 1864, in honor of the Napa rail line’s founding year. Now three more of the low-emission ...

The train included 132 cars and two locomotives. The train included tank cars marked with hazardous materials placards, but none of the tank cars appeared to be damaged. The derailment left train ...

While officially called NPCU's (Non-Powered-Control-Unit) by Amtrak, these earned the nickname 'cabbage car' for its dual use cab car/baggage car design.

In the train observation car — a living room on rails — we seem to be moving almost silently. But I’m aware of a dizzying ...