Go for the old-school station vibe, stay to watch trains pass, and take a slow walk through the museum exhibits, it’s a rare Michigan stop that still feels like classic rail travel.

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

In 2018, high-speed passenger trains branded as Brightline started running along the formerly freight-only Florida East Coast Railway. Initial service from Miami to West Palm Beach was extended to ...

Though its history is tied to track, the product line for Atlas Model Railroad Co. has grown and diversified from Z to O ...

This scenic train ride in Pennsylvania offers the perfect way to enjoy fall, with stunning foliage, peaceful landscapes, and ...

Stand on the platform at Ogden’s Union Station, and it’s easy to imagine a different era. A time when train horns echoed ...

ONE AFTERNOON in the spring of the year 1910, Ben Lilly with five of his dogs swung off the caboose of a freight train at the ...

This Illinois town shaped by railroads and highways features a railroad park, local history museums, antique stores, and an ...

As the sunlight that once lit up the Matterhorn fades, so does the pace of the trains running along the mountainside. Yellow light begins to ...

In the Lithuania that existed before the Second World War, a young veterinarian named Ksaveras Masanauskas was a lieutenant-colonel in the independent nation’s army. Then Adolf Hitler and ­Joseph ...

The novelist and artist Amitava Kumar folds a sensitive narrative into the 142 pages of The Social Life of Indian Trains: A Journey. “The railway lines that crisscross the country, and are longer even ...

Today in History for Feb. 8: ...