Ordinarily, one does not immediately think of railways when Japan comes to mind. Perhaps the famous bullet train Shinkansen does, but the chugging steam engine is not one of the usual images of ...

In the early 20th century, deadly conditions on the job killed thousands of US workers each year. Railways and mines were dangerous, but so were factories and mills. Photos from the era show just how ...

The Northwest Railway Museum is completing a trade this week that will send a 1951 diesel engine from their collection to Nevada, and bring a 1940 locomotive from Longview to its original home in King ...

A collection of thousands of items of railway memorabilia has gone on sale at auction. Station signs, uniforms, ticket machines and signal box instruments are among the pieces amassed by a collector ...

THE PREMISES of Engine Depot (or the Old Depot as it is popularly called) celebrated the 14th national reunion of historical railway engines and vehicles called Rendez 2012. The Slovak railway ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When you stop to think about it -- the Staten Island Railway (SIR) system is New York City's only rapid transit line. And though the SIR operates 24 hours a day, seven days a ...

The clamor of trains and blaring whistles no longer disturb folks in Ely. The railroad tracks now skirt the northern edge of this old mining town, not quite a four-hour drive north of Las Vegas. The ...

As train travel expanded in the latter part of the 19th century, railroad companies built or helped fund hospitals and created in-house medical organizations that could care for passengers during ...