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

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

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

A report released Tuesday is urging Congress to take action on safety issues involving long freight trains. Employee training and train car stacking are among the top concerns.

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

When train travel expanded into Illinois in the 1800s, it was the lowest ranking employees who laid the rails, which could weigh close to half a ton. To keep the trains running on time through the ...

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

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

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

Unexpecting passengers were met by city and state officials on Thursday as the Newport News Transportation Center celebrated its first Amtrak train. Officials with the City of Newport News ...

The Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last year was as long as 31 football fields.