On Dec. 18, an Amtrak train traveling from Seattle to Portland, Ore. derailed on a highway overpass in DuPont, Wash. So far, the accident has left at least three people dead and has injured hundreds ...

I’m a conservative and a believer in free markets — always have been. But free markets don’t mean anything goes. They mean ...

Trains sit on the tracks at the BNSF Railway Argentine Yard in Kansas City, Kan. Nick Wagner [email protected] Just before he retired, Matthew Rose offered a warning to his peers running the nation’s ...

The railroad station once was in institution an American life, in small towns and big cities alike. This human-interest tale is interwoven with history as the program explores how people interacted ...

Railroads are the quiet workhorses of our economy — moving the goods that keep manufacturers humming, farmers exporting, and small businesses stocked. They invest billions in infrastructure without ...

The train wreck in East Palestine could have been worse. In 2013 rail tank cars carrying oil separated from their locomotives and derailed in Lac-Megante, Quebec. The explosion killed 47 people and ...

Whether we face a nationwide railroad strike this month has been a moving target. Contracts between the major freight carriers and four unions may be settled by the time you read this. In 1991, the ...

American railroading began in the Capital District. On December 28, 1825, Schenectady County native (Duanesburg) George Featherstonhaugh (pronounced fen-shaw) ran a newspaper notice announcing the ...