The Railway 200 Inspiration Train will stop at Cambridge, Colchester, Clacton-on-Sea, and Hertford East in early 2026 as part of the national Railway 200 celebrations. The Railway 200 tour marks the ...

If 2026 is the year that you book an epic train journey, then a classic route across America's West Coast could be just the ...

Here we round up the 10 fastest diesel locomotives ever.

Smoke billows from the stack of the steam-powered tractor as it chugs along, sounding like a train locomotive. At a top speed ...

To wrap up our Arts Special, our columnist starts an occasional series looking at rail’s relationship with literature ...

Crew with restored steam locomotive No. 2101 as American Freedom Train No. 1 during the 1975-76 tour. The locomotive was purchased from a scrap dealer and restored to pull the AFT in the Northeast U.S ...

My report on the Dec. 4 Amtrak Board meeting in New Orleans included a proposal by Scott R. Spencer, Chief Operating Officer of AmeriStarRail, who proposed rebranding the new NextGen Acela as ...

Alicia Rovey of the All Fifty Club, a group of travel enthusiasts who want to visit all 50 states, visited five states with her family on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, which runs between Chicago and Los ...

Europe’s Christmas markets hardly need help feeling charming, but somehow trains make them even more so. While the rails carry you past storybook villages and evergreen-studded hills, the journey ...

Damage to a train is seen at the site where a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in Reeves County, Texas on Wednesday, December 18, 2024. (Daniel Alvarado/Reeves County, Texas ...

The singing started early on. As the 112-year-old steam locomotive rumbled out of its berth at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland, St. Nick launched into a song about himself – ...

Options range from classic model trains to decked-out subways. As the 2025 holiday season gets underway, multiple cities are celebrating the festive season using trains -- from classic model trains to ...