TACOMA, Wash. — There are probably more glamorous places to spend a summer day than a track side parking lot in Chehalis, but there's no place my teenage son, Cooper, would rather be right now.

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski / Dave Abeles of Lebanon, N.J., and his brother, Ben Abeles of Winterstown, Pa., (from left) talk trains with Josh Hollands of Bistow, Va., on The Station Inn front ...

“It’s on the Y chromosome, I think,” Wolff said, laughing, explaining that male rail fans outnumber female ones. “It may be latent, but it’s there. It got me when I moved to Chicago in 1979 because ...

Cameras were aimed at the approaching train as a cluster of people gathered on both sides of the railroad tracks along Ferry Street. Their anticipation was not for a celebrity, politician or even a ...

Mirroring or mimicking the earlier actions of Class I freight railroad BNSF, Amtrak Monday said it hopes to use the railfan community to help bolster the railroad’s own safety, using that base as a ...

Jim Boyd, editor of Railfan & Railroad magazine from the magazine’s launch in 1974 until 1998, died last week at age 69. Boyd continued as editor emeritus of the magazine, and also was author of the ...

SPRINGDALE -- Yellow giraffe necks stick out of blue train cars labeled, "Bronx Zoo." The locomotive at the front belongs to the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway. A single dark green passenger car ...

Reggie McGee watched the third train rumble past in less than an hour. It curved north at the “diamond,” where tracks cross east to west and north to south, taking a well-used route between Pittsburgh ...