The Barstow City Council in California has approved BNSF’s $4 billion BIG (Barstow International Gateway) project, a planned ...

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...

Longer trains have more cars, possibly a greater variety of car types and sizes, and more requirements for power distributed across the train in comparison with shorter manifest trains. Because of ...

The derailment of a 178-car freight train in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, 5 in August 2017, which led to the release of hazardous materials and a fire, brought attention to potential safety ...