A project to build a new railroad switching yard outside of Elkin could start this summer. Officials with the N.C. Department of Transportation are in the process of completing an agreement with Duke ...

Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway Co. is opening a $40 million switching yard in Von Ormy in southwestern Bexar County, aimed at speeding rail service into and out of South Texas and Mexico. The new rail ...

Union Pacific Railroad steamed past the only significant political barrier in its effort to build a regional switching yard 60 miles southeast of the Valley, with the Pinal County Board of Supervisors ...

You never know where change will lead you. What started out as an attempt to fine-tune my existing HO scale layout ended with a new house and a 2,600 square-foot, four-deck model railroad – the Sunset ...

Our son became fascinated by the Jordan Spreaders and rotary snowplows (the “rotaries”) of the Union Pacific after watching The Battle for Donnor Pass. (Where else can you watch guys blast ice from ...

Remote-controlled railroad locomotives have been in use in U.S. railroad yards for decades, railroad experts say. A worker with a controller is often on the ground with their eyes on the train during ...