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The effort by Robert Primus to regain his seat on the Surface Transportation Board appears to have been dealt a fatal blow after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today (June 29) that President Donald ...

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Classic Trains covers North American railroads from the 1940s through the early 1970s. Includes many first person stories and period photos.

GM’s 1947 Train of Tomorrow consisted of an E7 diesel and four cars, all of which had domes. This is the… ...

Watch live railroading action 24 hours per day on TrainsMag.com! Our Rochelle Web Cam captures live action as the BNSF and Union Pacific main lines cross.

There is more to understanding railroad wayside signals than simply “green means go, red means stop.” To appreciate what the signals you see along the track are telling you, you first have to grasp a ...

Phase one of the HO scale East Troy Industrial Park project railroad reaches a major milestone as the Trains.com crew… ...

Burlington Route history begins with the Aurora Branch Railroad, chartered on Feb. 12, 1849, to build a line from Aurora, Ill., to a connection with the Galena & Chicago Union (forerunner of the ...

Amtrak’s General Electric P42 diesel locomotive is offered in several modeling scales. The quarter is included for size comparison. Cody Grivno photo Model train scales come in a handful of commercial ...

Three Canadian National cowls, a C40-8M and two SD60Fs, wheel a northbound train around the connection at Leithton, Ill., on Sept. 3, 2015. Chris Guss Six-axle freight locomotives built with a cowl ...

Join Trains Editor Bill Stephens for a live reader Q&A at 8 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, moderated by Associate Editor… ...