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 engine headed via rail car on Thursday from Middleton to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — A bronze statue of Solomon Northup, renowned city historical figure and author of the memoir “Twelve Years ...

Scranton, Mount Pocono, East Stroudsburg,” Larry Malski, said calling out stops like a conductor on a train crossing from ...

One person was killed in the early hours of Saturday, July 5, on railroad tracks used by both freight train line CSX and ...

People heading south of the border this summer will likely be hopping on a plane or planning a road trip, but the train was ...

It captured the imagination of folks around the country and essentially around the world,” Tom McCullough said of the story ...

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April 7 commemorates the day in 1933 when the federal government declared beer up to 4% alcohol by volume to be ...

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

Today, Lowell National Historical Park includes several restored buildings and a variety of exhibits, in addition to canal ...

Jun. 28—Matt Hoffner has seen too many of Maine's promising life science startups leave the state to grow their companies. Entrepreneurs in the burgeoning industry reach a point where they've ...