Rail Transportation Engineering instructor Bryan Schlake (right) reviews the controls in the cab of Penn State Altoona’s EMD SD60I locomotive with senior Bryson Edwards. Mirror photo by Patrick ...

BRAINERD — Hearing that train coming around the corner in Brainerd, it could be a local Brainerd man at the controls as he gets ever closer to accomplishing his goals. Alex Wacker grew up knowing ...

A deadly commuter crash in Southern California is now being attributed to a locomotive engineer who failed to stop at a red signal—possibly because he was text-messaging while on the job. How do ...

It was 1976, a year when there was a resurgence of leisure train travel with the start of Amtrak, when Class I railroads in the Northeast joined to form Conrail, and railroads across the nation ...