NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy speaks at a Monday, Sept. 21, event at Chicago Union Station to announce new safety recommendations regarding shoving moves during switching. David Lassen CHICAGO — The ...
A model of the Stadler locomotive to be built for VIA Rail Canada is on display at InnoTrans in Berlin. Keith Fender BERLIN — VIA Rail Canada made news this summer with orders for 45 hybrid ...
NOVI, Mich. — CSX is planning to abolish 165 maintenance-of-way positions and furlough more than 1,000 workers, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division has announced. In a post on its ...
Union Pacific SD70AH No. 8898 and two Norfolk Southern Dash 9-44CW locomotives lead an eastbound manifest freight into Elmhurst, Ill., on July 7, 2026. The Surface Transportation Board has turned down ...
OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian government has announced more than Ca$4.5 million in funding for 12 projects under the Rail Safety Improvement Program. The education and awareness projects aim to ...
Stadler and Metra will debut the first of Metra’s new battery-electric FLIRT trainsets on Oct. 5 in Chicago. Stadler CHICAGO — Metra and Stadler will unveil the first of Metra’s battery-electric ...
Visitors check out equipment on display at InnoTrans 2026. At left is a new Alstom Intercity EMU built for Italy; at right is CRRC’s Vellink subway train. Keith Fender BERLIN — InnoTrans, the largest ...
Resident Carmine Giso makes a point during a Sept. 17 meeting on Amtrak’s proposed Chicago maintenance facility, eliciting a positive reaction from project opponents. Bob Johnston CHICAGO — Amtrak’s ...
With added dramatic lighting for a photo session, former Union Pacific 2-10-2 No. 5511 sits in the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America backshop at Silvis, Ill. On its return to operation, the ...
A Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern train works in Kankakee, Ill., on April 11, 2022. Pinsly Railroad Co. is acquiring the short line serving Indiana and Illinois. David Lassen WASHINGTON — Pinsly ...
Amtrak Amfleet cars were the first of the National Passenger Railroad Corporation’s own passenger cars in the 1970s. They were and are, useful, flexible cars that have served the railroad for decades.
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 ...