Back in the day when railroads were squeezed under the thumb of the Interstate Commerce Commission and saddled with ...

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...

Andy Muller Jr., CEO of the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad, is eager to buy the Luzerne County Redevelopment ...

The largest U.S. railroad union said Monday it will support Union Pacific's $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern , ...

Jim Vena, the CEO of Union Pacific, has been blitzing Washington in a quest to get an $85 billion freight rail merger ...

The public would feel many benefits if rail companies grabbed business back from trucking, but doing so will be tough.

Two and a half years after a derailed train spewed toxic gases across eastern Ohio, none of the nation's largest freight railroads have fulfilled promises to join a voluntary federal close call ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three of the biggest freight railroads operating in the U.S. have told the government they won’t meet a 2018 deadline to start using safety technology intended to prevent accidents ...

The first step in building a freight train is an understanding of what railroaders mean by "compliance." A freight train is said to be "in compliance" when it's assembled properly and is operating ...