A recent locomotive failure that stranded passengers on an Amtrak Wolverine train for more than five hours — mostly without ...

Hello and welcome to Chicago Union Station! Today we’re riding on Amtrak’s California Zephyr while taking a look at Amtrak’s newly refurbished superliner sleepers ...

California air regulators repealed a state rule Thursday that would have mandated rail operators phase out the diesel locomotives that traverse the state, but failed to get necessary federal approval.

A trio of congressmen are co-leading the Locomotives Act, to stop California from imposing some regulations on trains operating across state lines.

The California State Railroad Museum announced, in partnership with Friends of No. 9, that it will display the restored No. 9 steam locomotive in July.

EXP, an engineering, architecture, design and consulting firm, has assisted California’s North County Transit – San Diego Railroad (NCTD) in acquiring four Siemens Charger-Electric locomotives. These ...

The California Zephyr — train service from San Francisco to Chicago combining the Burlington, Denver and Rio Grande, and Western Pacific railroads — began service in 1949. That quickly ended most ...

A writer traverses the American West on Amtrak’s California Zephyr train with pit stops in in Omaha, Denver, and Reno.

Economists say California’s new climate standards that would require railroads to switch to zero-emission locomotives could reduce market competitiveness and increase food costs, significantly ...

It is amazing that the California Air Resources Board would entertain a requirement for battery-powered locomotives (“California Says Don’t Keep on Truckin’,” Review & Outlook, June 18 ...