Mark Nist was outside picking up a mail delivery when the sound of a train's whistle – and a friend's "holler" caught his attention. Nist said he glanced down Stoystown Road just in time to see a coal ...

mixed passenger and freight train. Early railroads also built rough shanties on flatcars. The familiar cupola was invented ...

AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) - The average freight train weighs around 143 tons in the United States, while the average car ...

The union that represents conductors says it will ask the Federal Railroad Administration to deny CSX’s request to become the first railroad to use Trip Optimizer’s Zero-to-Zero feature, which allows ...

Problem is, there is no silver bullet here. A few career lives ago, I was a railroad freight conductor. Toughed it out for two years and quit for the same reasons the unions are complaining about ...

My Cascade Tunnel adventure continued even after my conductor, Chris, and I fled the 7.9-mile-long tunnel after the ...