Discover how Pere Marquette 1225 inspired The Polar Express and now powers Michigan’s North Pole Express between Owosso and ...

U.S. freight railroads are a major source of pollution, chuffing out more nitrogen oxide than all the nation’s coal-fired ...

Merry Christmas, Santa!” The greetings echoed outside the 112-year-old Minersville train station Saturday morning, as ...

The 2-8-4 Berkshire-type steam locomotive helped open the advancement in Super Power steam technology through size, speed, ...

Take a trip through the beautiful Upper Midwest -- and back in time -- with a ride on this old-fashioned steam train with festive seasonal and holiday routes.

Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said. A mining crew hit an unknown pocket of ...

HUNTINGTON — The relocation of the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railway steam engine displayed near 14th Street West has begun as the coal tender attached to the locomotive displayed in Huntington since ...

A subtle change in language used by the Chinese government has left room for the world’s biggest coal user to prolong rising consumption through the end of the decade. The Communist Party said in a ...

NEW KENT COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A CSX train derailed with two locomotives and 53 cars carrying coal in New Kent County on Saturday afternoon, spilling into wetlands. Authorities stated that there are no ...

A CSX coal train derailed in New Kent County on Saturday. The incident left at least 15 railroad cars and two locomotives off the tracks between Roxbury Road and S. Mountcastle Road. The New Kent ...

NEW KENT COUNTY, Va. — Amtrak service to parts of Virginia has been canceled after a CSX freight train carrying coal derailed in rural New Kent County on Saturday afternoon, according to officials.

SWEETWATER COUNTY — The completion of the Union Pacific’s transcontinental railroad in 1869 created a voracious demand for coal, and the immense Rock Springs Coal Field, which passed beneath and ...