Let me clarify one fact right off the bat: I am not a spokesperson for Norfolk Southern, but I did retire from there after nearly four decades of employment. As a 9-year-old boy in the 1950s, I laid ...

Voltify, a start-up, has a bold ambition to convince U.S. Class 1 railroad companies to switch to battery-electric power. Powering locomotives using batteries rather than diesel would save U.S. rail ...

President Joe Biden's executive order targeting the maritime and railroad industries, among others, calls for enhancing competition for shippers. One of the issues that the July order directs the ...

Five years after World War II ended, it became apparent to the railroads that steam locomotives were not the motive power of the choice. While a half dozen locomotive builders were assembling ...