Meet the freight train, reborn. Railroading helped define development in the United States, but by the 1970s it seemed doomed to gradual decay and obsolescence. Today, it is a growth industry.

Colossal freight locomotives are a fixture of the American landscape, but their 4,400-horsepower engines collectively burn 3.5 billion gallons of diesel annually, at a time when railroads and ...

Now, the freight industry is heading in a direction where trains may only have one worker on board: an engineer, who is the person driving the train. This is a future that many railroaders tell ...

When a freight train travels across the country, two people are in the cab of the locomotive working to keep the train, its often hazardous and flammable contents, and the communities they are ...

Recent reports indicate that manufacturing in the United States is ready to rebound. Factory orders in certain sectors are showing their sharpest uptick in almost five years.

Debris from a Norfolk Southern freight train lies scattered and burning along the tracks on Feb. 4, 2023, the day after it derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.

A CSX freight train derailed Wednesday morning after striking a rockslide in a remote area of West Virginia, ... The incident has spurred bipartisan political efforts to prevent future incidents.