The SMART-TD union today said it would back Union Pacific’s acquisition of Norfolk Southern under an agreement that ensures ...

Back in the day when railroads were squeezed under the thumb of the Interstate Commerce Commission and saddled with money-losing passenger service and dying branch lines, Class I railroads went ...

The merger would create the United States’ first coast-to-coast rail network, spanning 50,000 miles and 43 states. By Peter Eavis Union Pacific, a freight rail giant, announced on Tuesday that it had ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in the Springfield, Ohio, area Saturday afternoon, prompting a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents -- just one month after the ...

The public would feel many benefits if rail companies grabbed business back from trucking, but doing so will be tough.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Norfolk Southern agreed to give Amtrak trains the highest priority after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement with the railroad company Tuesday, to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that Norfolk Southern has agreed to give all Amtrak passenger trains the "highest priority" over freight trains. The settlement with ...

The railroad finished rebuilding its tracks along the North Toe and Nolichucky rivers just before the one-year anniversary of ...

Firefighters and Norfolk Southern employees inspect a freight train along Birmingham Pike on Thursday evening after a small fire broke out in its engine bay. Mirror photo by Rachel Foor BIRMINGHAM — A ...