Police say an armed suspect approached two Union Pacific contractors along Gregg Street.

A new exhibition in Pilsen documents how Mexican and Mexican American workers helped build Chicago’s rail system and lived in boxcar communities. The show traces more than a century of labor history ...

Council Member Susan Zhuang on Tuesday introduced a City Council resolution that would, for the first time, recognize the history of Chinese-American railroad workers in New York City. Surrounded by ...

As baseball is a straightforward game—hit the ball, catch the ball, throw the ball—negotiating wage, benefits and work rules agreements between railroads and their dozen craft-differentiated labor ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Two of the largest railroad unions in negotiations with railroad carriers have drawn a line in the sand: They are demanding more quality-of-life ...

Yu Guoliang, an engineer in California who immigrated from Siyi, portrays a Chinese railroad laborer in The Silent Spikes, a ...

Train Dreams is an upcoming film that adapts Denis Johnson’s novella into a portrayal of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker navigating life in the rapidly changing America of the early 20th ...

Two and a half years after a derailed train spewed toxic gases across eastern Ohio, none of the nation’s largest freight railroads have fulfilled promises to join a voluntary federal close call ...

LARAMIE — In many ways, Wyoming’s heritage lies on the shoulders of immigrants who built the transcontinental rail line traversing the southern portion of Wyoming and the multiple generations of ...