An aerial view of the Centennial Mills warehouse gutted by fire, looking west toward the Union Pacific railroad tracks. City of Portland PORTLAND, Ore. — Union Pacific has reaffirmed its plans to ...

WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an injury to a CSX conductor that occurred Thursday, Aug. 6, in Fairburn, Ga., the agency has announced. The incident occurred at ...

The U.S. Senate today (Aug. 7) confirmed the nomination of Karen Hedlund for a second term on the Surface Transportation Board. Hedlund was renominated by President Donald Trump on May 11, 2025. Her ...

Siemens Charger SC44 locomotives and a long-distance ALC42 locomotive (at left) are lined up outside the Chicago diesel shop on March 21, 2026. A lack of serviceable motive power has caused ...

Leaving Kamloops, B.C., 14 hours late after laying over the previous evening, VIA’s westbound 21-car Canadian snakes around the curve at Kissick, B.C., 9 miles west of Kamloops, on May 17, 2026. The ...

The site plan for BNSF’s Barstow International Gateway project. A coalition of environmental groups has sued to halt the $4 billion project. BNSF Railway SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A coalition of ...

Union Pacific No. 1616, which honors President Abraham Lincoln for signing the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 that created UP, sits at the railroad’s Jenks Locomotive Shop. Could the stroke of President ...

Norfolk Southern will operate six specially painted locomotives in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence. NS ATLANTA — Norfolk Southern today unveiled illustrations of its six ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. rail volume turned a corner in March, according to the Association of American Railroads, which says it was the best March since 2019 and the highest monthly average since October ...

LOGAN TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Two locomotives and 17 cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed today (Saturday, March 7) in Logan Township near Horseshoe Curve, WJAC-TV reports. NS told the station that the ...

SD70M No. 4828 leads an eastbound Union Pacific intermodal train at La Fox, Ill., on May 31, 2026. More than 40 Republican members of the House of Representatives have weighed in with the Surface ...