South Africa sets world’s longest freight train record, Amtrak Starlight and Zephyr trip report, locomotive fire stops UP ...

The incident happened on Oct. 15.

BNSF announced via social media that it has placed a new 11-mile segment of third main track into service. This track is ...

Authorities have identified Elias Ortega, 63, of Fresno, as the man who died after being struck by an Amtrak train in Fresno ...

A viral clip from inside the Pacific Surfliner shows a massive El Niño-fueled wave smash into the train as billions in coastal rail defenses hang in the balance.

The San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority (SJJPA), the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission (SJRRC) and the city of Oakley, ...

California's bullet train just released its final Anaheim plan — and the money clock is ticking toward December 2027.

Fact-finding expeditions on Amtrak’s far-flung long-distance network usually reveal positives and negatives of a complex ...

Oakley just broke ground on a new Gold Runner train station — and it's finally closing the books on Antioch's troubled Amtrak ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An F40 locomotive, now a non-powered control unit, leads the first revenue run of Amtrak Cascades Airo train no. 503, at Portland, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A freight train collided with an unoccupied vehicle on the tracks in Denver on Saturday, but no injuries were reported, law enforcement officials said. The ...

Esther Fung is a reporter in The Wall Street Journal's corporate bureau in New York, where she writes about parcel-shipping companies like FedEx and UPS, freight railroads like Union Pacific, CSX and ...