Railroads, if you ask me, were the most consequential economic and technological innovation in American history, and without a doubt were the most important component in aiding the expansion of ...

The Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor was once a wetland, known after statehood as Woods Lagoon,” writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. “It was named for the colorful Woods ...

Mike Pearson hosts, This Week in Agribusiness looking at the hurdle facing the railroad merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.

Bakersfield’s Sumner train station again is fighting for its life. It’s a fight worth winning. Meeting this month, City Council members agreed to extend only until June the city’s lease of the ...

The railroad provided relatively cheap, and certainly fast, transportation across the nation, it connected farmers, ranchers, and industrialists to a large national market, and “shrunk” the ...

Union Pacific will celebrate the 250th year of American independence with its first-ever coast-to-coast steam tour led by the Big Boy locomotive.

Thirteen Kansas- and Colorado-based farmers, Weskan Grain and Colorado Pacific Railroad (CXR), two subsidiaries of Soloviev Group, yesterday filed an antitrust lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for ...

Canada’s main railway stocks offer defensive appeal and dividends. But which is the better railway for your portfolio? The ...

Getting there, they say, is half the fun. One group of travelers would have begged to differ. Because what should have been a ...

Union Pacific has released new details on the schedule for its first-ever coast-to-coast tour of its ‘Big Boy’ historic ...

Control of a key local entity is one of the reasons the Surface Transportation Board denied the merger application for now.

Geneva and six other municipalities on the Union Pacific West Line are looking to jointly represent their interests in the potential merger.