As a young boy growing up in the 1960s, John Cartwright had a father who worked for the Great Northern Railway and understood and nurtured his son’s fascination with trains. The father and ...

Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery in Minneapolis, the final resting place for Black soldiers who fought for the Union Army, has ...

Robert Jordan specifically bought his home because of his dream to build a giant model railroad. He spent the next 21 years building the display in his Menomonee Falls basement.

Credit: Scharfsinn/Shutterstock. Sierra Northern Railway (SNR), a division of the Sierra Railroad Company, has acquired the assets of RailPower for an undisclosed sum. This move will allow SNR to ...

Connecticut's Cheney Rail Trail follows the path of the now defunct railroad line of the South Manchester Railroad, which was ...

Reading & Northern Railroad experienced record freight revenues in 2024, in addition to growing passenger ridership. The Port Clinton-based railroad earned more freight revenue in 2024 than in any ...

University of Minnesota (UM) students called for their school to be "shut down" if their administrators do not make it a "sanctuary campus." "What do we want?" the lead protest speaker asked a ...

Train services through Blackburn are being cancelled due to a points failure at Salford Crescent. Monday evening services on the lines between Clitheroe and Rochdale and Headbolt Lane and ...

The number of customers using digital tickets on Northern trains has hit a monthly ... service for those who prefer a paper ticket.” Rail Minister Lord Hendy said: “The rail ticketing system ...

Eight projects in Minnesota are slated to receive funds to improve safety at rail crossings. The primary goal is to significantly reduce the risk of collisions between vehicles and trains at ...

While the government is promising improvement as train operators are brought back into public ownership, state-run Northern Rail cancelled 142 trains a day on average in the four weeks to 1 February.

I had a front row seat to this in 1998. Diesels from RailAmerica’s four Minnesota properties — Dakota Rail, Minnesota Northern RR, Otter Tail Valley RR, St. Croix Valley RR — passed through the shops ...