Many of us have had that moment in our lives when we dream of becoming a locomotive engineer. It’s a fascinating career, but what does it take to get there in today’s high-demand world of modern ...

K.C. Hill, 86, has worked for the same railroad company for almost 68 years. He started as a fireman and now works as a full-time engineer for BNSF Railway. Hill enjoys the variety of his work and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A low-cost training program for rail workers of the future will hold an open house Thursday, Nov. 21. The Stockton event will ...

Robert Burkhardt working as a new locomotive engineer in 1980. Few things resonate sweeter than a solid father-son relationship. That’s especially true when sons proudly follow in their father’s ...

It was 1976, a year when there was a resurgence of leisure train travel with the start of Amtrak, when Class I railroads in the Northeast joined to form Conrail, and railroads across the nation ...

It seems like a dream job. The opportunity to earn six figures, have a good union job with benefits and get some fresh air. Yet NJ Transit is struggling to hire locomotive engineers, as employees ...

Operating trains was a childhood dream come true for the man at the helm of Amtrak Train 188, when it derailed Tuesday night in Philadelphia. Brandon Bostian, 32, who grew up in Memphis, Tenn., always ...

A TIME TO HONOR CHANGEMAKERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND THERE ARE SOME, OF COURSE, RIGHT HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY. EDWINA JUSTICE WAS THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE TRAIN ENGINEER FOR UNION PACIFIC, AND SHE HOPES ...