Norfolk Southern marked a milestone on Tuesday morning when its first New England double-stack train arrived in Ayer, Mass., ...

Railroads proposing mergers inevitably make ambitious promises and projections, particularly about faster service and more ...

A 3,000-ton locomotive was careening down the tracks with no crew on board. Authorities tried—and failed—to stop it. Then one ...

Samuel Hartman fondly remembers the standard gauge model train set of his childhood, although the 82-year-old Cecil County ...

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is restoring all morning express trips on Regional Rail as more ...

Closed in 2023 after chunks of undergirding dropped on Amtrak and Conrail trains, Edgely Bridge will finally reopen this ...

A dog named Conrail, found seriously injured along train tracks in Altoona in November, has been given a second chance at ...

Amtrak will probably have to idle some of the new trains it is rolling out because the railroad’s maintenance facilities won’t be upgraded in time, federal inspectors found. The misstep means Amtrak, ...

Newly released 911 audio from a December stabbing on a Charlotte light rail train captured the frantic efforts of passengers as they struggled to help the victim, who was allegedly attacked by a twice ...

Alicia Rovey of the All Fifty Club, a group of travel enthusiasts who want to visit all 50 states, visited five states with her family on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, which runs between Chicago and Los ...