Norfolk Southern didn’t mind being late to the AC-traction party. And NS wasn’t just fashionably late, either. As Burlington ...

Union Pacific plans to send Big Boy No. 4014 on a transcontinental trip next year as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary ...

Thousands of people welcomed the largest steam locomotive ever constructed as it made its way back to Southern California Wednesday. The Union Pacific locomotive, known as "Big Boy" 4014, had been ...

The CEO of Union Pacific told Trains.com late last week that the company plans to send the engine on a transcontinental trip.

Over the last several years, a group of people have been trying to bring a part of that robust history back to life. The group is the Texas Railway Preservation Association (TRPA), and its existence ...

This Union Pacific branchline train heads home at sunset near Platte Center, Nebraska on Aug. 22, 1988. The train — the Norfolk local returning to Columbus with a little bit of everything in tow — was ...

OMAHA, Neb.OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific will spend more than $1 billion to upgrade 600 of its old diesel locomotives over the next three years and make them more efficient, but regulators still want it ...

A little over an hour east of San Diego lies the sleepy, little town of Campo and the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum. The museum is only open on weekends, but museum President Stephen Hager and the ...

Road names: Southern Pacific ( Daylight with fluted sides, Overland with fluted sides, and general service with fluted and ...

OGDEN — The Utah State Railroad Museum is gearing up to receive a piece for its collection that will help to tell a fuller story of railroading in the state. Earlier this month, the Union Station ...

In this photo provided by Wabtec, a completed modernized Union Pacific locomotive is prepped for delivery at Wabtec's Fort Worth plant in Fort Worth, Texas, in October 2021. Union Pacific will spend ...