The railroad bought the Beacon Line right-of-way in 1995 for nearly $4.5 million and once considered using it as an east-west link for its Hudson and Harlem lines.

But the Federal Railroad Administration has just 400 inspectors, Flatau said, while the nation's rail system has 140,000 "route miles," including more than 5,000 in Ohio. A route mile can include ...

A March 1 filing with the U.S. Surface Transportation Board indicates the MBTA intended to purchase an 8.4-mile segment of railroad track between milepost 0.0 at Franklin and milepost 8.4 at ...

An original Reading Railroad locomotive may soon be back on the tracks. After more than a decade of work, a project to restore Locomotive No. 2100 is wrapping up, according to representatives of ...