The MBTA’s board of directors voted Thursday to spend roughly $253 million to overhaul 40 diesel commuter rail locomotives ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern currently have more than 2,300 locomotives in storage and anticipate, at least initially, ...

Model Railroader Senior Editor Cody Grivno reviews the Rapido Trains HO scale Milwaukee Road rebuilt SD10 diesel locomotive.

NJ Transit has joined the growing number of railroads and transit agencies with locomotives decorated to mark the 250th ...

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Though we’re currently in the thrall of another, newer mode of transport—the relatively cheap, small and free-ranging “car”—trains rolls right alongside Conestoga wagons as the vehicles that made ...

Dead Rail” or “Power on Board” — no matter what you call it, the concept is the same: a model locomotive that carries its own ...

On the naughty list? A lawsuit against the railway that operates the popular North Pole Adventure accuses the nonprofit of violating a lease deal.

Fortescue Metals in Australia is deploying battery electric locomotives with world's largest land-mobile battery packs to ...

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike, the moment when the transcontinental railroad was finally completed with a ceremony at Promontory Point in Utah on May 10, 1869. And while the ...

Michigan-based Class II Lake State Railway Company (LSRC) is purchasing four EMD® SD70ACeT4 locomotives from Progress Rail, a ...

LAHORE: The image of a steam engine transports one back a couple centuries to the height of the Industrial Age. Perhaps no other invention so neatly captures the spirit of the epoch than the lumbering ...