A preliminary rendering of a Stadler locomotive for VIA Rail Canada. The final design may vary. VIA Rail Canada MONTREAL — The Canadian government will spend Ca$1.6 billion (U.S. $1.14 billion) to buy ...

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A Norfolk Southern coal train bound for North Carolina passes signals at Milepost 2.9 on the BL-Line in Tennessee on July 20, 2026. It was the first train on the route in eight years. Nathan Wike ...

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All through October, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the gritty, coal-hauling, Pennsylvania-based Reading Company railroad. Please enjoy this photo gallery of Reading freight trains selected ...

A New York Central J-3 Hudson gallops east at Camelot, N.Y., with train 38, the Missourian, in June 1940. The New York Central was a large railroad, and it had several subsidiaries whose identity ...

For years the Chicago & North Western operated Chicago’s most extensive commuter service. Its three routes were designated West, North, and Northwest. Those names also serve well to group C&NW’s lines ...

In the late 1960s E. Hunter Harrison was working in the tower in Frisco’s Tennessee Yard in Memphis when Bill Thompson, the railroad’s operations chief, dropped by. Thompson pointed to the yard tracks ...

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The Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger application highlights projected increases in traffic on the new railroad’s north-south spine, as well as planned capacity improvements. Trains.com, ...