Canada’s Alto high-speed rail project, which is currently in the process of determining the exact route for the Toronto-Montreal-Quebec City project, is running into growing local opposition along its ...

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When Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 rolled into the East on Norfolk Southern rails this year — the 4-8-8-4’s first visit since leaving the American Locomotive Co.’s Schenectady, N.Y., plant in 1941 — ...

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A Norfolk Southern coal train bound for North Carolina passes signals at Milepost 2.9 on the BL-Line in Tennessee on July 20, 2026. It was the first train on the route in eight years. Nathan Wike ...

CHICAGO — The South Shore Line will debut newly restored Nippon Sharyo railcar No. 3, restored to its 1982 as-built… ...

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In 2013, the Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railroad, or CRANDIC, acquired eight L4-1500XD-M switcher locomotives manufactured by RELCO in Albia, Iowa. Since the CRANDIC was built as an interurban railway, ...

For years the Chicago & North Western operated Chicago’s most extensive commuter service. Its three routes were designated West, North, and Northwest. Those names also serve well to group C&NW’s lines ...

In the late 1960s E. Hunter Harrison was working in the tower in Frisco’s Tennessee Yard in Memphis when Bill Thompson, the railroad’s operations chief, dropped by. Thompson pointed to the yard tracks ...

The Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger application highlights projected increases in traffic on the new railroad’s north-south spine, as well as planned capacity improvements. Trains.com, ...

Consolidated Rail Corp., a.k.a. Conrail, history from 1976 to 1999 in the Northeast serving Chicago, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, and Philadelphia ...