It was 1976, a year when there was a resurgence of leisure train travel with the start of Amtrak, when Class I railroads in the Northeast joined to form Conrail, and railroads across the nation ...

A TIME TO HONOR CHANGEMAKERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND THERE ARE SOME, OF COURSE, RIGHT HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY. EDWINA JUSTICE WAS THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE TRAIN ENGINEER FOR UNION PACIFIC, AND SHE HOPES ...

Few things resonate sweeter than a solid father-son relationship. That’s especially true when sons proudly follow in their father’s footsteps. For locomotive engineer Robert Burkhardt, that ...

BLOOMINGTON -- As heavy rains fell outside the Union Pacific Railroad yard office in west Bloomington, locomotive engineer Russ Starkey was ready to run the last train of his 47-year career. But in an ...

Jacqueline Pettyjohn has been riding SEPTA's rails throughout the region for the past four decades. But, on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, Pettyjohn -- who holds the distinction of being SEPTA's first ever ...

PITTSBURGH — For years, Scott Wilcox drove a train for Norfolk Southern, traveling between the Conway Pennsylvania rail yard and Toledo, Ohio. “More times than I care to count,” says Wilcox. It’s the ...