The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Metro-North Railroad has completed the sixth in its series of locomotives ...

Metra has donated F40C No. 614, one of just two such surviving locomotives, to the Illinois Railway Museum. IRM says in a press release that it hopes to restore the locomotive to operating condition.

Train Dreams is a film of considerable beauty and simplicity. It captures a bygone era to remind us that all eras become ...

McKeesport native Helen Richey became the first woman to fly a commercial airliner to deliver mail and transport passengers. She was part of what was known as the “air-minded movement.” Richey and ...

Iowa became a territory on July 4, 1838. In 1839, the U.S. Congress authorized two roads in the new territory. One road went ...