As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three of the biggest freight railroads operating in the U.S. have told the government they won’t meet a 2018 deadline to start using safety technology intended to prevent accidents ...

*(CNN) — This Friday, tens of thousands of railroad workers are poised to go on strike, potentially bringing nearly a third of all US freight to a grinding halt. It would be the first national rail ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation on Thursday held a virtual public meeting to gather feedback on the 2025 Pennsylvania State Rail Plan, a document that lays out how freight and passenger ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thieves have targeted freight trains running through the deserts of California and Arizona in a string of audacious heists resulting in the theft of more than $2 million worth of ...