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

Also on the list was the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot (1926), which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, and the American Railway Express Agency building (1926).

From Campo to Balboa Park and even Tijuana, our region offers several ways to enjoy train rides and train history ...

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

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

World War II was probably the high-water mark for rail traffic in the region ... of the roundhouse crew at San Luis Obispo’s Southern Pacific railroad yard; women who are putting their desire ...

When deciding whether Canadian Pacific Kansas City ( TSX:CP) or Canadian National Railway Company ( TSX:CNR) is the better ...

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.

The earliest tunnels in Southern California were built for shelter, or mining purposes, but as civilization encroached, the ...

Subsequently, trains from Chicago to the Bay Area also used the loop. When the spiral’s construction finished in 1876 on the Southern Pacific Line, it was considered one of the railroad world ...

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.” ...