The vast majority of trains on the planet depend on the friction (also known as adhesion traction) between steel drive wheels and steel rails to turn power into motion, but the somewhat slippery metal ...

The to-do list runs dozens of pages and contains 1,035 individual tasks. When Steamtown National Historic Site finally checks off the last one, the fully restored Boston & Maine Railroad 3713 ...

Lewiston and Auburn have been waiting for their turn for passenger rail to come to us,' said Lewiston Sen. Peggy Rotundo, the ...

Jacqui Clydesdale, a writer in Saint John, is creating a musical from people's memories of the Gull, a passenger train that ...

BOSTON, Feb. 12. The threatened strike of the locomotive engineers and firemen employed by the Boston and Maine Railroad Company, operated between this city and Portland, with several branches and ...

SEVEN DEATHS IN ALL. Boston, Saturday, Nov. 22. RICHARD HIATT, WM. FITZER and JOHN RAFFERTY were undoubtedly killed or drowned by the railroad drawbridge disaster at Charlestown yesterday morning.

The Boston and Maine #3713 locomotive is seen in the shop at Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023.

History of the rail gap. It’s difficult to overstate just how railroad-crazy America once was. Lines crisscrossed even remote regions, including areas of Maine where almost nobody lived.

In this photo provided by the Maine Forest Service, several locomotives and rail cars burn after a freight train derailed Saturday, April 15, 2023, in Sandwich Academy Grant Township, near ...

Several locomotives and rail cars burning after a freight train derailed, Saturday, April 15, 2023, in Sandwich Academy Maine Forest Service via AP By Associated Press April 16, 2023 ...

Maine asks railroad to fix roads, culverts after derailment. By Associated Press. April 29, 2023. ... Boston, MA 02114 News Tips: (800) 280-TIPS Tell Hank: (855) 247-HANK. Join us.

The to-do list runs dozens of pages and contains 1,035 individual tasks. When Steamtown National Historic Site finally checks off the last one, the fully restored Boston & Maine Railroad 3713 ...