The Surface Transportation Board on Friday, March 13, approved Union Pacific’s plans to build 6 miles of new rail line in Maricopa County, Ariz., a project that had been delayed because of concerns ...

In the early morning hours of October 9, 1995, the Amtrak Sunset Limited was traveling through the remote desert of southern Arizona. Suddenly the train left the tracks and plunged into a ravine. One ...

Sheboygan’s last passenger train left Penn Avenue depot in 1971, ending decades of rail service and marking the end of a local transportation era.

Sitting on the farm outside Kersey, Colo., two 1905 Union Pacific wooden boxcars became the home of a Japanese American family of seven toward the end of World War II. The cars will be restored and ...