Read about some notable model train products from the 1960s taken from the pages of Model Railroader magazine.

Norfolk Southern says it has a deal with Ancora Holdings to keep the investor from launching a repeat of this year’s campaign ...

Locomotives in the scrapyard Sitting switchers The switcher is a rapidly-dying species on American railroads. Pushed out of ...

Story of the U.S. Sugar 148 steam locomotive, which was built for Florida East Coast and traveled around the country ...

Dreamstar Lines is the company behind what would be the first luxury overnight train service between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The National Railway Museum has sent RailAdvent an update on Flying Scotsman, with the locomotive currently based at Locomotion at Shildon. The museum says that they are working with Northern Steam ...

The other major Western railroad, BNSF, would likely also have seen a big jump in shipments, but their results won’t be public until their parent company, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, reports ...

Big Boy No. 4014 was delivered to Union Pacific in December of 1941, according to the railroad company. It traveled more than one million miles in 20 years before being retired in 1961. Twenty-five ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 will depart from Denver Union Station back to the locomotive's home base in Cheyenne, ending the locomotive's "Heartland of America Tour." Big Boy No. 4014 will ...

Those wishing to see Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, will have their chance Wednesday in Greeley. The popular train will be on public display during its whistle ...

The deal will see Wabtec (NYSE: WAB) providing the company with its Evolutions Series ES44ACi locomotives to replace KTZ’s aging fleet. The locomotives, which are built to provide high ...