The Western Pacific is a short (1,188 miles) railroad whose main line runs from Salt Lake City to the Coast, but its tracks cover some coveted ground. Last week, in a conference before the Interstate ...

Washingtonians in 1860 could take trains directly to Baltimore and from there to Philadelphia, Harrisburg, or the trans-Appalachian West. A journey from Alexandria to Richmond, however, required a ...

In their desperate effort to move more troops than ever before, on top of holiday crowds, U.S. railroads have spread men and equipment paper thin. Last week they snapped in a dozen places. On the ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — The attendance was off the rails as thousands of fans attended the annual Railroad Hobby Show at Eastern States Exposition grounds on Saturday. With hundreds of scale miles model ...

Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S, and potentially trigger a final wave of rail mergers across the ...

Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S, and potentially trigger a final wave of rail mergers across the ...

Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena (left) sits with Norfolk Southern CEO Mark George as both men sign the agreement to merge the two railroads they lead on Monday in Omaha, Neb. Bill Sitzmann/Union Pacific ...