The Underground Railroad was known for helping many enslaved people escape to freedom. It consisted of a network of people ...

Three locomotives and six train cars from Canadian Pacific Kansas City derailed in Sandwich Academy Grant Township on April ...

State officials say a train derailment in rural Maine that spilled hundreds of gallons of fuel and hospitalized three workers was attributable to a beaver dam.

Sure, Amtrak competes against the air shuttles (faster, but even more expensive), buses (much cheaper and slower) and, of ...

According to legend, the Old Narrow Gauge route is supposedly haunted by the spirit of a man who went missing on the trail.

“There are transload opportunities on the route,” says Selden Houghton, head of the Vermont company that operates seven railroads in its home state, as well as New York and New Hampshire. Until the ...

The exciting new Etihad Rail connects the Emirates and later it will connect the Emirates to Oman. Currently, only in use for freight trains, there are still big things in the works for the train, ...

Eventually they uncovered enough discarded rail material to fill Rojas’s car. Galindo says each object is unique and can be dropped, rolled and rattled to create rhythms and textures.

BOSTON - An earthquake ... off York Harbor, Maine according to the United States Geological Survey. It was also felt in New Hampshire and Rhode Island, a USGS map showed. The earthquake with ...

BOSTON - An earthquake just off the Maine coastline on Monday could be felt in Boston and hundreds of miles away into Connecticut and Vermont, according to a "shake map" from the United States ...

A magnitude 3.8 earthquake rattled parts of New England on Monday morning, with shaking felt from Boston to Portland, Maine, the US Geological Survey said. The quake was centered about 7 miles ...