Motive SD40s look as though they're eating up the rails in this photo of a Burlington Northern SD40-2 at 55 mph.

That dandy epigraph, from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Travel,” begins Emma Donoghue’s entertaining new novel. “The Paris ...

Life moves pretty fast when you’re aboard an Amtrak train chugging along at 80 mph ... There’s also a 100-page binder filled with facts about the route, compiled by different guides over ...

Among the latter was John Bainbridge, an author of deadpan, droll Profiles and reported pieces. A self-effacing Midwesterner ...

Three days after it began, the NJ Transit strike is ending. Train service will resume Tuesday to give the agency time to inspect tracks and prepare rail cars, NJ Transit officials and Gov.

Riders complained about packed trains and late trains, among other issues. “On top of doing away with the BOGO, you’re increasing the fare,” one rider said. The buy one month, get one free ...

Northern Trains has put out a tender to refurbish its fleet of 17 (51 vehicles) class 323 trainsets, which it has taken from West Midlands Railway. Northern currently has 34 323s operating across its ...

According to Trains Magazine, for which Mills was a contributing writer, Mills campaigned to increase the size and importance of the museum. In May 2010, the exhibits moved to a custom-built ...

Before he became a musician, Merle Haggard lived the kind of life that's often mythologized in song: Hopping freights and doing prison time. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car.

Phalon tells Smithsonian magazine. The boxcar’s exterior will return to its 1949 appearance, while the interior will be renovated to house a traveling exhibition about the Merci Train and the ...

Abstract: This paper presents a safe sensing scheme and radio frequency energy harvesting system (RFEHS) to monitor rail conditions for autonomous trains. Conventional sensing schemes expose trains on ...