CALGARY, Alberta — A more than two-month-old strike by CPKC signal and communication workers in Canada will continue after union members voted down the railroad’s latest offer. The Revelstoke Review ...

The freight house for our HO scale Rice Harbor project layout [see the January through May 2014 issues of Model… ...

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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 ...

Train signals and interlockings: Railroad dispatchers can set signals from hundreds of miles away, while relays and logic circuits prevent conflicting movements that insure the safe and efficient ...

The RoadRailer era will come to an end this month as the last Triple Crown unit trains operate between Detroit and Kansas City. But the trains will be replaced by new container service linking Toledo ...

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 ...

The original Pennsylvania Railroad ran from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. Much of its subsequent expansion was accomplished by leasing or purchasing other railroads. Construction began in 1847. Two ...

Southern Railway history: The earliest portion of the Southern Railway was the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company, which was chartered in 1828 to build from Charleston, S. C., to Hamburg, S. C., ...

4-8-2 2605, a product of IC’s own Paducah (Ky.) shops, leads a long string of refrigerator cars north on the main line at Peotone, Ill., in the 1940s. Illinois Central Railroad dated from 1851 when it ...