U.S. freight railroads are a major source of pollution, chuffing out more nitrogen oxide than all the nation’s coal-fired ...

Kansas City is home to the second-largest rail hub in the United States, and is facing a pivotal moment that will either protect or continue to endanger the health of many of our residents. The ...

In this photo provided by Wabtec, a completed modernized Union Pacific locomotive is prepped for delivery at Wabtec's Fort Worth plant in Fort Worth, Texas, in October 2021. Union Pacific will spend ...

Battery-powered locomotives could be running on Metra tracks for the first time in the coming years, as the commuter rail service undertakes a plan to convert a handful of its old diesel engines to a ...

Union Pacific will spend more than $1 billion to upgrade 600 of its old diesel locomotives over the next three years and make them more efficient, but regulators still want it to do more to cut ...

OMAHA, Neb.OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific will spend more than $1 billion to upgrade 600 of its old diesel locomotives over the next three years and make them more efficient, but regulators still want it ...

SPENCER — Train enthusiasts young and old were allowed to man the controls to an old diesel locomotive on Saturday as part of the North Carolina Transportation Museum’s “At the Throttle Diesel” event.

A dozen old diesel locomotives have been left abandoned and rusting in a quarry. Eerie aerial images show the trains tightly packed together surrounded by discarded railway sleepers. The ex DB Cargo ...

Dr19 is a new kind of locomotive from VR Group that has been built for freight traffic. Credit: VR Fleetcare. Finland’s rolling stock maintenance firm VR FleetCare has reached a ten-year agreement ...

The Northwest Railway Museum is completing a trade this week that will send a 1951 diesel engine from their collection to Nevada, and bring a 1940 locomotive from Longview to its original home in King ...