The vision of fully electrified dedicated freight corridors with exclusive high-capacity tracks, aimed at significantly ...

More rail-to-rail competition is essential to lowering costs, strengthening supply chains, and supporting American jobs. The STB must apply the hard and costly lessons of past mergers and reject any ...

Florida’s new rules for rail crossings take effect Jan. 1, aimed at reducing the number of drivers and pedestrians killed by trains. The rail manual is a substantial rewrite of what is currently in ...

Alicia Rovey of the All Fifty Club, a group of travel enthusiasts who want to visit all 50 states, visited five states with her family on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, which runs between Chicago and Los ...

Traveling at incredibly high speeds without human control is on track to become more common in China, and possibly elsewhere.

XI'AN, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- At an international forum on the China Railway Express on Tuesday, government officials, scholars, entrepreneurs and representatives of international organizations from home ...

The new service offers international cargo shipments by container train. The route passes through Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan ...

The 2-8-4 Berkshire-type steam locomotive helped open the advancement in Super Power steam technology through size, speed, ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- A freight train hit a pedestrian in the west suburbs on Monday night, Metra said. Metra said the collision happened near Naperville. What led up to the crash was not ...

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A person was struck and killed by a freight train in the west Chicago suburb of Downers Grove early Sunday morning. Downers Grove police said they were called at 12:45 a.m., after a person was struck ...

It was a Thanksgiving miracle. An elderly woman miraculously only suffered minor injuries Wednesday after a freight train slammed into her car along a New Jersey highway — and dragged it for a quarter ...