The New York Central System was a vast and legendary railroad, connecting the East Coast to the Mississippi River. A key ...

A train wreck that caused the death of more than a dozen commuters near the turn of the 20th century was the impetus behind a ...

According to the website Trains Are Fun, which documents LIRR crashes as far back as 1865, between 1912 and the end of 1950, ...

York’s No. 17 steam engine returns to New Freedom after a $400K FRA inspection; train rides resume in December.

Once the iron backbone of American travel, the New York Central Railroad connected cities, lives, and dreams. Today, only fragments remain of its vanished empire. Panic on US ‘aircraft carrier’ island ...

Metro-North wrapped one of its locomotives in a design that honors the Armed Forces on Veterans Day. It will be displayed at Grand Central Terminal.

Once a hub for guns and electrical wiring, Bridgeport, Connecticut, is now home to artisanal manufacturing businesses and a ...

After a $500,000 overhaul, the William H. Simpson No. 17 steam engine is back to enchant York County's holiday season ...

The restorations begin at the museum's massive mahogany front doors, which were restored to their original Lockwood-era ...

Acclaimed illustrator and author Jeanette Winter, a pioneer of picture book biographies and nonfiction, many of which focused ...

From grand central terminals left to crumble to rural stop-offs reclaimed by nature, these abandoned railway stations offer a ...

Sister Grace Miller, an iconoclastic advocate for Rochester’s poor and founder of the House of Mercy homeless shelter, died ...