Wabtec Corp. will acquire the Inspection Technologies division of Evident Scientific for $1.78 billion, Wabtec announced today (Jan. 14, 2025). The acquisition adds advanced automated inspection ...

Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 will return to the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad for six days in April and May as part of ...

The Reading & Northern has expanded its passenger car fleet with the purchase of a fleet of cars from a private operator in ...

The federal Bureau of Land Management has approved sale of almost 30 acres of public land to BNSF Railway for its planned ...

A bill that would require Amtrak to disclose information on base pay and bonuses for some of its executives has passed the ...

The agency overseeing the New Mexico Rail Runner commuter operation has received a $22.4 million grant for a new maintenance ...

The first word in the Association of American Railroad’s annual Rail Industry Outlook is “uncertainty,” as a slew of economic ...

Brightline will revive the commuter pass program it discontinued last year, thanks to a federal grant it received last week, ...

Amtrak’s “new normal” for handling anticipated severe weather — cancelling trains rather than operating them into a region where a storm is predicted — has proven to be a significant change from ...

Canadian National has opened a new 4-mile stretch of double track on its former Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Chicago bypass route.

In a mid-1960s photo, illustrator Bob Wegner gets tips from Art Director George Gloff (background at right) in the Kalmbach ...

The Surface Transportation Board says it is on schedule to issue a decision by early summer in the Sunset Limited on-time performance case, the first Amtrak has brought against a host railroad. “As we ...