With high-speed rail ambitions in California delayed by years and coming in at a higher-than-expected cost, Lou Thompson, who sat on the state's high-speed rail peer review group, said "failure is ...

In light of climate change, flygskam (Swedish for flight shame) and the ease of arriving at a city-centre train station instead of the hassle of a far-flung airport, the world is all aboard for train ...

Progress Rail (a Caterpillar Company) on Aug. 11 announced that it will expand in Kansas City by making a multi-million-dollar investment to convert its Kansas City, Mo., production facility into a re ...

For true rail fans, the ultimate luxury is traveling in a private rail car. It was the preferred method of travel across the United States during the late Gilded Age for the likes of the Vanderbilts ...

On 10 May 1869, history was hammered into the ground in Promontory, Utah. Shortly after noon on a sunny spring day, hundreds of onlookers gathered in a tent city, hastily constructed in the ...

After severe weather and repeated flight delays left them stranded in New York for four days last year, Susan Kluttz and her husband finally bit the bullet. They abandoned their plane tickets and ...

Editor’s note: This is a recurring series on the possibility of expanding Colorado’s minimal passenger and ski-train rail network to perhaps one day include Vail and Beaver Creek. Read part one.