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OMAHA, Neb.—Passenger railroads nationwide will now be required to install video recorders inside their locomotives, but the head of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Thursday the new rule ...

HELENA, Mont.—Poor track conditions that should have been flagged by a freight railroad company’s inspectors caused the derailment ...

News Analysis China's top leader Xi Jinping appears to be prioritizing cooperation with Central Asia for gas pipelines, ...

WASHINGTON—A group representing major U.S. railroads on Thursday warned carriers to stop using rail cars with loose wheels ...

Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown and New York Attorney General Letitia James led a coalition of 14 ...

OMAHA, Neb.—Federal regulators have ordered Union Pacific railroad to make sure a livestock producer gets the grain it ...

Railroad workers and their union leaders have criticized President Joe Biden's call for Congress to block a planned ...

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy reveals two more top priorities for the Republican-led House: removing some Democrats from ...

The risk of a crippling national rail strike has resurged after some members of America's biggest rail union ...

OMAHA, Neb.—A second railroad union rejected its deal with the major U.S. freight railroads on Wednesday, adding to ...

Her name alone is nearly poetic, but it is history and grandeur that give Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave ...

FORT BRAGG, Calif.—Along Northern California’s coast, the world-famous Skunk Train attracts visitors to Fort Bragg from near and ...

The threat of a U.S. freight rail strike remains possible, as some rail unions have yet to ratify ...

President Joe Biden has announced that a tentative deal has been reached between U.S. railroads and unions to ...

The administration of President Joe Biden has been preparing a contingency plan to ensure deliveries of critical goods ...

One of the unions representing U.S. rail workers has voted to authorize a strike while two others ratified ...

LOS ANGELES—Two unions negotiating contracts for almost 60,000 workers at major U.S. freight railways on Sunday said those ...

Of Irish heritage, James J. Hill grew up on the Canadian frontier. Despite the loss of vision in ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Brightline trains killed one person and seriously injured another in separate accidents less than 12 hours ...

Union Pacific (UP) threatened to end rail traffic through Los Angeles County in response to widespread train burglary, ...

Thieves are raiding cargo trains carrying packages in Los Angeles County and littering the railroad with thousands of ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A train belonging to Florida's higher-speed passenger rail service struck and killed a man walking on ...

A product’s path from manufacturer to store shelf is currently an obstacle course of chokepoints within the interconnected ...

An executive order signed by President Joe Biden that could force railroads to allow other operators to use ...

Charles Carroll of Carrollton might well have been the Elon Musk of his day. The last surviving signer ...

A train driver from Chile has been hailed a hero after bringing his huge locomotive to a halt ...

A man in China laid near railroad tracks with his clothes on fire while onlooking railway officers took ...