Two weeks after a rockslide in Colorado derailed a train into the Gunnison River, spilling thousands of gallons of fuel into ...
Dozens of people, including a young British girl, were injured when a packed train struck a locomotive in western Thailand. The girl, aged 7, was travelling on he busy train carrying hundreds of ...
The houses are worn by weather and time, photographed in isolation like forgotten monuments. They have a haunted feel: Windows are boarded on Victorian-era turrets; paint flakes off the towering ...
In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...
A 1949 diesel locomotive that once hauled lumber and window frames through Andersen Corp.’s Bayport factory is running again after nearly a year of painstaking volunteer restoration at the Minnesota ...
Sept. 22 (UPI) --The U.S. Department of Commerce announced a $4.2 billion commercial deal between the government of Kazakhstan and U.S.-based Wabtec Corporation, which makes locomotives. The deal, ...
DETROIT – Years ago, cleaning up blight in Detroit seemed like an impossible task. Abandoned homes dotted neighborhoods, creating eyesores and challenges for residents. On Friday (July 18), the city ...
SCRANTON, Pa. — A monumental piece of railroading history thundered back onto the tracks at the Steamtown National Historic Site on Friday, as the Nickel Plate 190 diesel locomotive powered to life ...
SCRANTON — More than 80 people stood on a Steamtown railroad platform Friday morning awaiting the arrival of a recently restored locomotive and the history it reflected. As the PA-4 Delaware ...
New Jersey Transit relies on more than 20 old-school diesel engines, including the United States’ oldest locomotive in regular passenger service. New Jersey Transit’s GP40 diesel engines, also known ...
California air regulators repealed a state rule Thursday that would have mandated rail operators phase out the diesel locomotives that traverse the state, but failed to get necessary federal approval.