Leaving Kamloops, B.C., 14 hours late after laying over the previous evening, VIA’s westbound 21-car Canadian snakes around the curve at Kissick, B.C., 9 miles west of Kamloops, on May 17, 2026. The ...

Northeast Regional No. 125 for Newport News, Va., has its electric locomotive cut off for replacement by a diesel at Washington Union Station on Oct. 15, 2024. A shortage of motive power over the ...

Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific locomotives lead a westbound CPKC freight at Brookfield, Wis., on July 9, 2026. David Lassen A Union Pacific executive said this week in a message to shippers ...

A South Shore train from Chicago’s Millennium Station to Munster/Dyer heads through downtown Hammond, Ind., on July 7, 2026, on the viaduct over the Grand Calumet River, Indiana Harbor Belt, and ...

Two Union Pacific crew members provide a roll-by inspection for an intermodal train near Wamsutter, Wyo., on Sept. 1, 2022. David Lassen WASHINGTON — A coalition of labor unions has asked the Surface ...

MEDORA, N.D. — President Donald Trump took a short ride on BNSF Railway on Wednesday, July 1, as he arrived to dedicate the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. The short video below, released ...

Union Pacific intermodal trains meet in Elmhurst, Ill., on June 20, 2026. Intermodal volume continues to boost overall U.S. rail traffic. David Lassen WASHINGTON — Surging intermodal traffic again ...

No injuries were reported when a CSX train derailed in Bensalem Township, Pa., on Tuesday, June 30. Bensalem Police Department BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Thirteen cars of a 72-car CSX train derailed ...

The surge in intermodal volume since Memorial Day has put strain on the BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific networks, according to an analyst’s report A CSX intermodal train cruises north ...

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Maersk containers ride an eastbound Union Pacific train at Lombard, Ill., on June 20, 2026. Maersk traffic has been shifting from BNSF to UP, according to RailState data. David Lassen Global container ...

The city of Dunsmuir, Calif., and Union Pacific have agreed to a lease allowing construction of a trail to Mossbrae Falls, which currently has no legal access. City of Dunsmuir DUNSMUIR, Calif. — ...