The leader of the largest railroad labor union says the creation of a new transcontinental freight rail network will create ...

America, a country once built on railroads, is gearing up for one of its most ambitious passenger rail projects in decades: ...

The Illinois Railway Museum isn’t just big—it’s the largest railway museum in America, and it makes most other museums look like static dioramas by comparison. When you first arrive at this sprawling ...

One would have to be a real ‘dummy’ to be involved with the railroad. Or going skateboarding through the hallways of a mental ...

The Francis Beidler Forest is one of SC's oldest untouched forests. The state-owned Santee Cooper utility wants to run a new ...

The railcar’s most famous moment came during Harry Truman’s 1948 whistle-stop campaign tour, when he triumphantly displayed the Chicago Tribune’s infamously incorrect “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline ...

“It was also a nation building event. If you were coming from Upper Canada and Lower Canada at the time, you were really ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 1, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

Robert Armstrong All right. Quick. Name as many train songs as you can. Downtown Train, Midnight Train to Georgia, City of New Orleans, Dixie Flyer, Hear My Train A Comin’. That’s Jimi Hendrix. Today ...