Caltrain has opened an online store with the hope of auctioning off 20 retired diesel locomotives that can be repurposed as a brewery, store, community center or cozy home. An opening bid for the ...

Kansas City is home to the second-largest rail hub in the United States, and is facing a pivotal moment that will either protect or continue to endanger the health of many of our residents. The ...

SPENCER — Train enthusiasts young and old were allowed to man the controls to an old diesel locomotive on Saturday as part of the North Carolina Transportation Museum’s “At the Throttle Diesel” event.

If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

It is never too early to start holiday shopping, especially when it means snagging the first-ever Caltrain ugly holiday sweater. The commuter rail service has joined BART in offering transit-themed ...

A dozen old diesel locomotives have been left abandoned and rusting in a quarry. Eerie aerial images show the trains tightly packed together surrounded by discarded railway sleepers. The ex DB Cargo ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Caltrain is going electric with the roll out of its new fleet of rail cars. But, what does that mean for the gas-powered trains? If you're a train enthusiast, you may have the ...

Modernizing our country's rail system, if done right, can create thousands of family-sustaining jobs. Some of those jobs would manufacture cleaner, safer green locomotives, the future of rail ...