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Tom Danneman loves trains, but enjoys the West as much. Join him for cinematic railfanning. THE video series helping model railroaders create a sense of place on a model train layout.

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 ...

Prior to the time of the streamliners, North American passenger trains were not particularly colorful. Most sleeping cars were Pullman green, although there were exceptions; both the Pennsylvania and ...

Riding Amtrak’s Palmetto on the home stretch: The passengers and crew of Amtrak’s southbound Palmetto have their last stretch stop in Florence, S.C. before the final 21/2-hour run to Savannah. David ...

An F7-class 4-6-4 steam locomotive leads one of multiple Milwaukee Road Hiawatha passenger trains over the C&NW diamonds at Mayfair in northern Chicago in 1941. E. T. Harley photograph Milwaukee Road ...

Amtrak conductor Erik Newsom waves as he prepares to reboard one of the Amtrak Midwest Venture coaches in Joliet, Ill., on Tuesday. The new equipment made its debut on a Lincoln Service round trip ...

The Atchison & Topeka Railroad was chartered in 1859 to join the towns of its title and continue southwest toward Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Santa Fe” was added to the corporate name in 1863. Construction ...

Train 99, the Coast Daylight, sails through Santa Barbara, Calif., in the early 1950s. Matching the colors of the train is GS-4-class 4-8-4 No. 4452, one of 28 built for Southern Pacific by Lima in ...

Two remanufactured British railcars, prototypes for the Pop Up Metro project, await operation in Rockhill, Pa. Dan Zukowski)= ROCKHILL, Pa. — Rail entrepreneur Henry Posner wants to make passenger ...

Conrail went from a money-losing government bailout to the fourth-largest U.S. railroad. After only 23 years of existence, Conrail was divided and sold to CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern for ...