The railroad stopped using the line in the early 1980s and doesn’t plan to put trains on it again. Street crossings have been paved over, and 40-year-old trees grow between the rails in many places.

Since railroad lines linked communities, rail trails typically function as connectors, too. While there’s no standard ...

Today people who were not alive when its smoke-spewing coal-fired trains passed through Remington, Wyman Park, Roland Park, ...

The Fore River Railroad, a 2.5-mile short line in Quincy, Mass., has defied the odds by surviving and thriving for 122 years.

Norfolk Southern has told the N.C. Department of Transportation that the Old Fort Loops in McDowell County will be restored after Tropical Storm Helene.

The only detail included in the documentation states the city would redevelop the line and “create a rail trail and provide alternative modal access to points located along the line.” ...

The proposal directs the city to study buying the 30th Street Corridor rail line and right-of-way between West Wisconsin and West Villard avenues.

Matthew Audi, who grew up in Airmont but is now in Washington, D.C., spoke with News 12 about an idea that would revive an old rail line into a rail trail for biking, running and more.