Trains

What’s it like to ride a historic locomotive? Go behind-the-scenes during FreightWaves’ ride on the No. 4014.

A look at Reducing Yard Emissions

Companies tout it as ‘largest investment in modernized locomotives in rail industry history’

See current and future emission reduction technologies for locomotives

FreightWaves Classics profiles the Lightning Express, which crossed the nation in less than four days.

FreightWaves Classics profiles the use of Chinese labor to help build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.

How trains help make a car

Communities contend increase in freight train traffic could bring more blocked crossings

FreightWaves Classics profiles Henry Dreyfuss, who revolutionized industrial design.

Wabtec and Progress Rail selected as suppliers

Positive Train Control, and how it works

Part 2 of the FreightWaves Classics overview of the Illinois Central is presented.

Although the percentage of freight that U.S. railroads carry has diminished over the decades, they are still a key part of the overall transportation system. Read about their earliest years.

A train carrying more than 160 Volkswagen vehicles was derailed in Mexico last week by thieves, according to Mexican authorities.

In Part 2 of the article about TTX Company, the company’s history is outlined.

In this Flashback Friday, some of the best movies featuring trains are profiled.

The founding of Nikola Motor Company did not happen overnight; it actually dates back to a time when a six-year-old boy was bothering his railroad-working father and was sent to see a train engineer.

Locating intermodal assets and identifying which of those assets is available for use is one of the key attributes of Phillips Connect Technologies’ Intermodal Smart Solution.

Tired truck drivers? That’s a big concern based on a new survey by the National Safety Council that found 97% of transportation employers are worried about employee fatigue.

Zurich-based tech company Nexiot and German firm VTG Aktiengesellshaft hope to improve the way VTG’s 80,000 railcars assets are tracked by applying blockchain technology.