UK: Arriva Group has ordered nine electric-diesel-battery hybrid trains to replace its open access operator Grand Central's entire fleet.

The Gwili Railway Co has announced that it has purchased GWR 2-6-2 No. L. 150, following its appearance at their gala earlier ...

Railway 200 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway. So far, over 300 events celebrating the past, ...

March 25, 1975: The City of Elko is currently in the midst of its wettest March in since 1904, Weatherman George Bostic said ...

Model railroad operators and builders can get ... Burlington Northern; Chicago Great Western; CSX, Penn Central; and Union Pacific. Price: Direct-current model, $109.98; with DCC and sound ...

When the long-anticipated “Hill Lines” merger finally created the Burlington Northern on March 2, 1970, it was time not to mourn the loss of a favorite, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, but to ...

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. – After 132 years, the wreck of a ship that sank in Lake Superior has been found. The wreck of the Western Reserve steamship, which sank on Aug. 30, 1892, was discovered about ...

It just reinforces how dangerous the Great Lakes can be any time of year.” The Western Reserve was well known in its time. The 318-foot ship was one of the first vessels on the Great Lakes made ...

KAZAKHSTAN: Chinese manufacturer CRRC has handed over a diesel hybrid shunting locomotive built for national railway KTZ. KTZ said its shunting locomotives operate for an average of 4 to 6 h per day, ...

The dark floor of the Great Lakes is home to many undiscovered shipwrecks. Thanks to the Ertel brothers, the Western Reserve is no longer one of them. Its steel bones will instead be a solemn ...

The Western Reserve was a very important ship in her time. She was one of the first all-steel vessels on the Great Lakes, she was built to break cargo shipping records and was deemed one of the ...