“An unforeseen mechanical issue" was discovered during a test run of the steam locomotive Pere Marquette 1225 before the ...

A Main Street hobby shop stocks every gauge of miniature locomotive engine and caboose. A model railroading club’s elaborate displays attract 2,000 visitors a year. Some residents have replaced ...

The 80-year-old locomotive underwent reconstruction, boiler refurbishment and repairs to the superheaters in the past year.

The sleek new Amtrak Acela glides on time into Washington’s Union Station after a fast run from Philadelphia. I’m at the controls of the train’s 6,000-horsepower locomotive, deftly working the brakes ...

These Reading Company model locomotives and boxcar are among Managing Editor Roger DuPuis’ recent acquisitions. It’s not entirely a thought experiment. As editor Roger DuPuis outlined in Sunday’s page ...

More than 70 years ago, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific worked from a 45-stall roundhouse located on its 90-acre facility ...

The model railroad industry, along with other hobby sectors, faces an existential crisis as Trump administration tariffs of up to 145% on Chinese imports dramatically increase costs for manufacturers, ...

Knee-jerks are part of business, one of the risks of doing business. As for knees, like most people, I have two of them, and as for jerks, I’ve been one, on occasion. I remember my own knee-jerk after ...

Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) executives on the company's third quarter earnings call moved to dispel any doubt that they are "all in" on switching the company's operations to precision ...

There is more than one way to answer that question. First, there is the more technical, more politically correct, definition that the railroads would likely prefer, which would be something like the ...