Visitors to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument can enter Buck Rock Tunnel, an 1884 railroad passage that tells the story ...

A local Steuben County museum is set to celebrate Southern Tier railway history in May. On Saturday, May 16, from 11 a.m. to ...

The new filing will restart the clock, which leaves a likely timeline of rejection or approval by the Surface Transportation Board sometime next year.

The day before Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern filed their revised merger application with the Surface Transportation Board, the American Chemistry Council (ACC), American Farm Bureau Federation, ...

Sometimes, coincidence spurs recall, which invites comparison, and (if we are perceptive) leads to insight. I had not before ...

Among those protesting the deal are all of the railroad’s major competitors, warning it consolidates nearly half of the nation’s rail volume into the hands of one entity.

The expeditionary force, a squad of officers from the Los Angeles Police Department, deployed to this rugged little mountain town near the Oregon border with a singular ...

Built in the late 1870s, the Old Fort Loops were built by more than 3,000 men and several hundred women, nearly all ...

La Mesa’s early growth was shaped by rail—but not in the way the term “trolley suburb” might suggest. Unlike neighborhoods ...

March 4, 1859, was not a good day to be out in the Lehigh Valley, or anywhere else in the northeastern U.S. for that matter. “A fine snowstorm is setting in above Albany,” reported the New York Times ...

Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, will travel to the East Coast for the first time as part of a coast-to-coast tour celebrating America’s 250th anniversary.

These Arkansas historic towns have preserved Main Streets, courthouse lawns, river views, old theaters, museums, and ...