The task force also suggested additional backup systems to allow train service to resume more quickly after a minor fault.

A model train emerges from a covered bridge in Jingle Rails: The Great Western Adventure at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. The annual display features trains running on 1,200 feet of track past ...

OMAHA, Neb. — The proposed $85 billion merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads has lost the support of two of ...

A moving train fills the frame of a shaky video. A ladder looms, and hands grip the rungs. A blur of movement, and you're inside an open train car piled with coal, trees whipping by on either side.

Rail-biking uses specially designed vehicles that are pedaled along disused railway lines. It’s easy and fun and uses existing tracks for recreation. One writer gave it a try in the Catskills. For ...