took bold action against workers in the Great Railway Strike of 1877. “He placed the entire military force of the state under arms and took vigorous action against the strikers along the route ...

Frederick Hihn emigrated to California from Germany in 1849. After starting several businesses in San Francisco and ...

Trevor Moresco, an actor from tiny Hitchcock, Texas, has a busy holiday seasoning store as The Conductor in The Polar Express at Galveston Railroad Museum.

In Britain, for instance, meals were served in so-called railway refreshment rooms from the 1840s, though the quality was often questionable. Charles Dickens, a frequent traveler on the UK’s ...

I don’t think the screwing that we got in 2022 [is playing] any factor today,” one locomotive engineer says. “I can’t imagine ...

The historical relationship between the village of Moose Lake and the railroad began on June 30, 1870 when the Lake Superior ...

Two Class 1 railroads are also assessing severe damage from Helene to their lines in Tennessee and North Carolina. Significant sections of tracks for both CSX and Norfolk Southern railroads are ...

Railway Age’s Next-Gen Train Control (NGTC) Conference – presented jointly with Parsons – has been the global rail industry’s single-most important communications and signaling and advanced-technology ...

Oct. 30 (UPI) --Railroad projects designed to make rail safer, more reliable and more resilient will get more than $2.4 billion in taxpayer funding, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced ...

"Big Thunder Mountain Railroad will temporarily close for refurbishment on January 6, 2025," Walt Disney World announced on the attraction's webpage. "The attraction will reopen with a little bit ...

The federal government is handing out $2.4 billion in railroad grants to help pay for 122 projects nationwide with more than half of the money going to smaller railroads, including in Minnesota.