The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway — the “Katy” — had a long history in the Tri-State District. Its main focus was rail ...

How a mountain town in Washington’s Cascade range underwent a drastic makeover after a railroad relocation nearly wiped it ...

If Union Pacific’s merger is approved, it could gain control of train operators who’ve been hauling freight across Chicago ...

Council Bluffs, Iowa, became the eastern end of the First Transcontinental Railroad when the last spike was driven into the ...

Piles of garbage continue to border the train tracks behind South 15 th Place, a month after a violation order to clean the space was placed on the owner, the railroad company Union Pacific. Residents ...

A Newsweek map shows where the United States has mobilized military aircraft across the Western Pacific during two large-scale Air Force exercises this month amid China’s growing threat. Exercise ...

When the late Jay Gould, maker and breaker of railroads, lay dying, his devoted daughter Helen, then 24, was a constant attendant at his bedside. Last week at Roxbury, N. Y., Jay Gould’s birthplace, ...

The Midwest Underground Railroad Network is hoping to save the Van Oostenbrugge Homestead, an 1858 home that has fallen into disuse.