Construction got a slow start in Omaha, Nebraska, eastern terminus of the Union Pacific ... Native American snipers, raids, livestock rustlings, scalpings, and burnings all along the railroad ...

July 1: Congress passes and Lincoln signs the Pacific Railroad Bill. The document endorses Central Pacific efforts to build the California line while simultaneously chartering a Union Pacific ...

Ahead of the observance of Veterans Day on Monday, Nov. 11, Metra has unveiled a special locomotive honoring Americans who ...

When the Union Pacific Railroad wanted to increase their freight-hauling capabilities back in 1941, they turned, of course, to the power of steam. More specifically, they turned to the American ...

Metra unveiled a locomotive honoring military veterans with a special design featuring a bald eagle and American flag.

The locomotive will start rolling on the Rock Island Line later this month before moving to other of the rail agency's lines.

Metra on Monday debuted a unique locomotive honoring veterans, active duty service members and reservists that will operate ...

The military’s massive experimentation event, Project Convergence, will plant a flag in the strategically vital Pacific region next year, the first time that U.S. and allied forces will kick the ...

IN TEXAS ABOARD UNION PACIFIC’S BIG BOY TRAIN ... and a reminder that railroads continue to have the power to stimulate the American imagination. Intentional or not, the spectacle stands ...

Locomotives in the scrapyard Sitting switchers The switcher is a rapidly-dying species on American railroads. Pushed out of ...

History of the Illinois Terminal Railroad from its interurban beginnings to its 1982 merger into Norfolk & Western ...