JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Short line holding company Patriot Rail today announced the appointment of Jason Bradt as its chief operating officer, which it said would strengthen its leadership team as it ...

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 ...

Rocky Mountain Steel Mills, which produces rail for Union Pacific at its facility in Pueblo, Colo., has reached a new five-year agreement with members of the United Steelworkers. Rocky Mountain Steel ...

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 ...

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

Atlas Model Railroad Co. is offering its Pullman-Standard 4,427-cubic-foot capacity three-bay covered hopper in a variety of new paint schemes.… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rock Island history is a mighty good history. In 1847 the Rock Island & La Salle Rail Road was chartered to build between Rock Island, Ill., on the Mississippi River, and La Salle, where connections ...