10 must-visit historic railroad towns will involve a journey through railroading’s past and present in these iconic ...

Train fans followed the tracks to Council Bluffs on Saturday. The Union Pacific Railroad Museum held its Winter Spectacular. Younger attendees got to control the T track and left with a small ...

Continuing this year’s theme of railroads in McLeod County, the McLeod County Historical Museum, 380 School Road N.W., Hutchinson, will host two train-themed events this month. The first is ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - Union Pacific Railroad is investigating a trail derailment east of North Platte near Highway 30. The derailment occurred at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday at the North Airport ...

Construction got a slow start in Omaha, Nebraska, eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad. By April 1864 the jubilance of groundbreaking had long ago faded into the ether. Chief engineer ...

Union Pacific has implemented engineer scheduling at nearly three quarters of its crew hubs. The agreements, reached between the railroad and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, put ...

There are steam locomotives, and then there’s “Big Boy.” At 604 tons and 132 feet long and with a 4-8-8-4-wheel arrangement, it is the largest, most powerful steam locomotive in the world.

Two boys waving to a freight train, Union Pacific Museum Since their first appearance ... and Broadway melodrama has used the aura of the railroad to tell its tale. But it was through popular ...

Asher Adams, a reimagining of the historic Salt Lake City Union Pacific Railroad Station into a modern luxury hotel, opened in early November. With 225 guestrooms, marrying history with contemporary ...

A massive snow-fighting machine has rumbled into the California State Railroad Museum roundhouse for its annual winter visit.