(STAUNTON, VA) — The hills and hollows of the Shenandoah Valley will soon be hearing the “lonesome whistle blow” after long absence, thanks to Staunton’s Virginia Scenic Railway. For more than 70 ...

Nineteen thirty-six had been a very good year at the Lima Locomotive Works. In its review of the year past on New Year’s Day 1937 the Lima News judged the plant’s resurgence second in importance only ...

In June 1938, the New York Central introduced new locomotives and Pullman cars. Their breathtakingly bold streamlined design was the handiwork of an industrial designer whose work would become iconic ...

It’s a cliché to refer to a decade as a "decade of change." In the summation of our nation's history, what decade wasn't a decade of change? Change is perhaps the great constant of American history, ...

There's a school of thought that railroads are one of the biggest reasons the United States is the country it is today. And if you trace train history back, it starts with the Baltimore and Ohio ...

When Amtrak unveils the first of 70 new locomotives Monday at a plant in California, it will mark what the national passenger railroad service hopes will be a new era of better reliability, ...