I’m a conservative and a believer in free markets — always have been. But free markets don’t mean anything goes. They mean ...

In any case, the video is structured according to three characteristic periods, as follows: 1. The beginning and the peak of the American railroads (1828-1916), 2. The period of competition and ...

This article appears in The American Prospect magazine’s February 2022 special issue, “How We Broke the Supply Chain.” Subscribe here. When the Union Pacific Railroad closed its Global 3 Intermodal ...

While many enslaved people tried to escape when what's formally known as "chattel slavery" was legal in the United States, ...

When President Biden signed a new law last week requiring railroad employees to accept contracts that railroads and unions had negotiated in September, it ended—at least for now—the threat of a strike ...

North American carload and intermodal traffic for the first 44 weeks of 2025 (ending Nov. 1) was up 2.0% from the prior-year ...

Railroads are the quiet workhorses of our economy — moving the goods that keep manufacturers humming, farmers exporting, and small businesses stocked. They invest billions in infrastructure without ...

(CNN) — Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion deal that would create America’s first transcontinental freight ...

The train wreck in East Palestine could have been worse. In 2013 rail tank cars carrying oil separated from their locomotives and derailed in Lac-Megante, Quebec. The explosion killed 47 people and ...

DURANGO, Colo. (KRQE) – Two popular attractions are up for a national award. The Cumbres Toltec Scenic Railroad and the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad are both nominees for USA Today’s ...

WASHINGTON – The Dec. 31 deadline to install automatic braking on trains only requires the largest railroads to operate on a majority of their routes by the end of the year, industry officials said ...

At 11 o’clock one bitter cold morning in Chicago last week, a deafening din arose from the Illinois Central Railroad’s yards. Whistles shrieked, bells clanged, diesel engines blatted their air horns ...