Few things resonate sweeter than a solid father-son relationship. That’s especially true when sons proudly follow in their father’s footsteps. For locomotive engineer Robert Burkhardt, that ...

Railroad engineers are not only schooled in the operation of 200-ton locomotives, they are also trained in smart driving techniques – anticipating terrain, coasting and reduced braking – that ...

Beginning his career as a fireman in a rail yard wheel shop, Hill served in the U.S. Army from 1962 to 1964 as a railroad switch engineer at Fort Lewis, Washington. During the Cuban Missile Crisis ...

Meet the 28-year-old engineer at the Georgetown Loop Railroad who is one of seven female steam engineers in the country- at least the last time she checked there were only six others.

James Walker, a retired engineer who served the old Pennsylvania Railroad, Penn Central, Conrail and Amtrak lines and was a railroad union official, died of pneumonia Saturday at Gilchrist Hospice ...

The only accommodation the railroad offered, the complaint said, was to move him to a lower paying position in the railyard. Presiding over the trial is U.S. District Judge Kristine G. Baker.

In a story Aug. 15 about a female railroad engineer, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Ramona Dockter was the first woman to work as a railroad engineer in the United States.

Two and a half years after a train derailment in Ohio, major freight railroads have not joined a federal program aimed at ...

An Aug. 4 letter, sent six days after U.P. announced plans to merge with Norfolk Southern Railway, cites problems in hiring ...

On March 21, 1943, engineer Ray E. Fleming was killed when a freight locomotive sideswiped his yard engine. His body, burned by escaping steam, was found buried in the cab's twisted wreckage.