Union Pacific faced the immense challenge of hauling heavy freight trains across rugged mountain terrain, requiring ...

The Class I railroad (NYSE: UNP) and project partner ZTR Control Systems recently wrapped up testing of the first unit of a ...

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Union Pacific and rail technology firm ZTR have concluded the first portion of the pilot program ...

The newly unveiled Abraham Lincoln commemorative locomotive No. 1616 and Cheyenne's Big Boy No. 4014 will meet up twice this ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 and the railroad’s diesel honoring Abraham Lincoln will make a round trip ...

Big Boy 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, will make two whistle-stops in Greeley, Colo., this summer as ...

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are looking for a new harbor rail operator for the first time since 1998.

By "luxury beliefs," I mean ideas born in comfort, often conceived in places where the cost of being wrong is low. These ...

The National Railway Historical Society, Railway Age and Railway Track & Structures have awarded Reading Blue Mountain & ...

Instead, this is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s and 30s experiments with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific’s oil-fired condensing turbo-electrics. The new idea here ...