The biggest concern with long trains is related to derailments caused by the forces that can tear a train apart as it crosses ...

Of the 25 Big Boy locomotives commissioned by Union Pacific in 1941, only eight survive today. Union Pacific reacquired Big Boy No. 4014 in 2013 from the RailGiants Train Museum in Pomona, Calif., and ...

The 105-page report on the impacts of freight trains longer than 7,500 feet recommends several steps that the Federal ...

The increased use of long trains has allowed the major freight railroads — CSX, Union Pacific, BNSF, Norfolk Southern ...

“We're here to say today that those days are over.” The motion states that Union Pacific has long violated state regulations ...

People gathered at rail crossings on September 16 to watch the Union Pacific train Big Boy No. 4014 head through Camden. The ...

Thousands of spectators flocked to Rochelle to see a classic stream train on Sunday, causing massive traffic jams.

The Big Boy No. 4014, the largest operating steam locomotive, makes whistle stop in De Soto, drawing as many as 10,000 people.

The first day of the Surface Transportation Board’s unprecedented hearing focusing on growth in the rail industry – or, more ...

Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, ...

A new report says the number of derailments related to the forces created when railcars push and pull against each other has ...

As freight trains have grown ever longer, the number of derailments related to the forces created when railcars push and pull against each other also increased, so the National Academies of Sciences ...