In a rare lawsuit, the Justice Department is trying to make freight lines comply with policy giving preference to Amtrak ...

A new report is highlighting the safety issues of long freight trains and urging Congress to take action. The report, ...

Freight trains have grown longer over the past two decades, blocking highways, delaying passenger trains and increasing the ...

Sometimes up to 1.86miles long and often claimed to be the longest train in the world, the Iron Ore train in Mauritania ...

You can’t blame Amtrak for being disappointed with the on-time performance of its long distance trains, which roll off the ...

To keep the trains running on time through the winter, they’d light fires to thaw the tracks. Called “traqueros,” a term ...

Interested in going "Around the World in 80 Days"? Here are the longest train lines in the world, arranged by length, that ...

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

An oncoming freight train smashed into a semi-truck carrying what appeared to be an M109 Paladin Howitzer mobile artillery vehicle and damaged the street crossing Thursday afternoon in Goose Creek ...

Two people are dead following a collision between an Amtrak train and an ATV around 8:30 p.m., Baltimore County Police ...

The North Texas group Regional Transportation Council met Thursday to discuss the possibility of oversight of high-speed rail ...

A new report says the U.S. has seen an increase in the number of a certain kind of derailment related to the forces created ...