Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are in merger talks to create the largest railroad in North America that would connect the ...

In 1874, this community was established by James Hackett and Peter Kanawyer. That makes it the oldest community in all of ...

South Dakota’s Railroad Board has terminated its lease agreement with the Dakota Southern Railway on a section of state-owned ...

A potential deal gathering momentum in the US railway industry may challenge that inconvenient state of affairs. The man ...

Union Pacific appears to be using a familiar playbook that large, publicly traded companies trot out when considering mergers ...

Norfolk Southern benefits from intermodal growth and industrial recovery, but macro risks temper near-term upside. Read why ...

The beginning of the Kansas City Southern Railroad (now known as the Canadian Pacific Kansas City) in Northwest Arkansas started out when the company bought smaller railroads and connected them to ...

HERE IT IS. July 5, and we celebrated the 249th anniversary of our independence as a nation. It seems we have moved from a ...

Esparto, near Sacramento, makes headlines after a fireworks explosion. Learn its history, location, and key attractions in this small Yolo County town.

From the 1930s to the 1950s, the Southern Pacific railroad operated the Sun Tan Special between San Francisco/Oakland and Santa Cruz. As roads improved, fewer people rode the trains.

Most “transit railroads” in the United States (and GO Transit, which serves Canada’s Toronto area) provide a full span of service on most or all their lines, although there are a few ...