The holiday season may be the best time to ride the rails on these iconic routes through Germany’s enchanted Black Forest, ...

A low, bellowing train horn haunts the daily routine of Camanche, Iowa. It’s there in the morning when diners shuffle into Spring Garden Family Restaurant, the only place open for breakfast. They sit ...

One of the best uses of your time in the autumn is simply watching the leaves change. There are few better ways to do that than with a train ride. Most railways are fairly inexpensive, trains often go ...

Transcontinental rail passengers have finally been granted the privilege a pig has; they will not have to change trains in Chicago. Under the needling of Chesapeake & Ohio’s Bob Young (“a hog can ...

High-speed rail development was adopted in the United States as early as 1969, yet it has not spread evenly across the country. Video of high-speed train flying through station stuns social media ...

Del Mar Historical Society President Larry Brooks will present the history of the railroad through Del Mar from 1880, when ...

“It can’t be good for the environment or for us either,’’ Wright, 33, said. Those concerns are shared by others. Columbia is one of the major routes for freight trains through South Carolina, a city ...

Railroad crews are working daily to reopen one of Southwest Colorado’s most popular attractions. Record rainfall caused the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad to shut down earlier in the week.

A plan to build an 85-mile stretch of new rail line in central Utah was derailed -- at least temporarily -- by federal judges' ruling Friday. The court's rejection of the previously approved proposal ...

At least once a year, I fly from my home in Edinburgh to visit my in-laws in Berlin. But all of these plane rides have increased my climate guilt and decreased my bank-account balance. So, I decided ...