It was 1976, a year when there was a resurgence of leisure train travel with the start of Amtrak, when Class I railroads in the Northeast joined to form Conrail, and railroads across the nation ...

After 40 years of service with SEPTA, a trailblazing train operator is calling it a career. Jackie Pettyjohn made history as SEPTA's first female train engineer, according to the transit agency. On ...

Few things resonate sweeter than a solid father-son relationship. That’s especially true when sons proudly follow in their father’s footsteps. For locomotive engineer Robert Burkhardt, that ...

Plainville, Ind. Never was a town more aptly named. It was on state Highway 57 and had nearly 500 souls in 1955. It had Charles England’s Machine Shop and was home to my grandfather Frank Morgan’s ...

PITTSBURGH — For years, Scott Wilcox drove a train for Norfolk Southern, traveling between the Conway Pennsylvania rail yard and Toledo, Ohio. “More times than I care to count,” says Wilcox. It’s the ...