The fatal train wreck that killed six employees at Spokane’s Parkwater rail yard a month earlier was caused by a shoddy switching procedure, which allowed a switch engine to use the main line track.

Sierra Northern Railway, based in Woodland, won a $4 million grant from the California Energy Commission Wednesday to design and build a hydrogen fuel cell switching locomotive at the Port of West ...

The April 3, 1909 Portsmouth Herald described a wreck between Passenger Train 29 from Boston and switching engine No. 483. The crash at the foot of Langdon Street near North Mill Pond could be heard ...

Let me clarify one fact right off the bat: I am not a spokesperson for Norfolk Southern, but I did retire from there after nearly four decades of employment. As a 9-year-old boy in the 1950s, I laid ...

More than most machines, a steam locomotive's design reflects its intended use. There are reasons why high-speed passenger locomotives have tall driving wheels and two-axle leading trucks while ...