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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A diagram from the “CX Vision” portion of Amtrak’s long-distance request for proposals shows proposed features of the lounge space in a combined lounge-diner. Amtrak WASHINGTON — Amtrak is asking for ...

Although some units proved long-lived, the EMD NW5 sold just 13 copies. Great Northern NW5 No. 187. EMD photo Although the pre-World War II EMD NW3 was not a stellar seller, after cessation of ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX today (June 8) unveiled its pair of locomotives that are a salute to the 250th anniversary of American independence. “Freight railroads have powered American growth and ...

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 ...