ATLANTA — Norfolk Southern will continue to modernize its locomotive fleet in a deal announced on Monday with Progress Rail, which will convert 96 of the railroad’s SD70M-2 models to AC-traction ...

Canadian Pacific Kansas City took the wraps off its America 250 locomotive today, becoming the first Class I railroad to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial with a specially painted locomotive. “This ...

Have you ever watched a mile-long freight train rumble by and wondered how one locomotive can pull more than a hundred fully loaded cars? The locomotive weighs maybe 150 metric tons, and each car is ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 steam engine embarks on its first coast-to-coast tour to celebrate America's 250th anniversary.

Two major railroad companies announced this week plans to highlight the United States’ 250th anniversary of independence ...

NS’s modernization roadmap includes new locomotives, a DC-to-AC program and a “push to reduce engine models from 13 to four over the next decade,” the Class I noted. Fewer models mean “lower ...

The White Pass and Yukon is a three foot narrow gauge railroad that stretches from the port town of Skagway, Alaska northward over the coastal mountains and into British Columbia, Canada and the Yukon ...

The Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway (CPKC) is honoring the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with a ...

The Flying Scotsman locomotive is to return to Dorset for 10 days in the autumn. It will be based at Swanage Railway from 23 ...

Locomotive 41, a popular tourist attraction at Knott’s Berry Farm in Southern California, has undergone an extensive 20-month restoration in Durango and is now back in service at the theme park.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A piece of American history will be on ...

Remote-controlled railroad locomotives have been in use in U.S. railroad yards for decades, railroad experts say. A worker with a controller is often on the ground with their eyes on the train during ...