Union Pacific has begun demolition on the former Southern Pacific machine shop in Sparks, a building that predates the city, ...

WASHINGTON – Norfolk Southern today asked a federal court to dismiss the Justice Department’s lawsuit over the railroad’s ...

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The Tehachapi Loop in California's Central Valley is a 3,799-foot-long rail spiral that first allowed passenger trains to journey from the Bay Area to LA.

A model railroad club seeks a buyer for the New Jersey house that’s been its home for six decades. The pitch: Inherit 3,500 feet of track and 30 of “your strangest new best friends.” ...

Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to ...

This case was consolidated with two separate cases in which the state of California brought suit against both the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and the Central Pacific Railroad Company. Both ...

A historic machine shop built in 1904 by Southern Pacific Railroad as part of its railyard operations will be torn down, according to the city of Sparks. The massive brick structure on Nugget ...

How do you make the trains run on time? British Rail adopted TOPS, a computer system born of IBM’s SAGE defense project, along with work from Standford and Southern Pacific Railroad. Before TOPS ...

SAN MATEO COUNTY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 21, 1885. In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the ...

If you’re into trains — whether ... something for nearly every railroad aficionado. One of the event’s highlights is the grand opening of the renovated Southern Railway Caboose X372, which ...