Most men of a certain age can remember playing with model train sets, perhaps received from under the Christmas tree or as a treasured birthday present. As the years went on, most of those trains were ...

Bob Bainter is something of a rules guy. On the job with BNSF, he’s a manager of Operations and Safety Training based out of Cicero, Ill. He’s responsible for ensuring that Transportation ...

Bloomsburg-based railroad photographer Oren B. Helbok made this photo of engineer Christopher Bost leaning out of the cab of Central of New Jersey steam locomotive 113, a preserved engine from 1923, ...

Starting with a 23-year stint in financial roles with Cummins, the local Fortune 150 company, Harter rose to director of finance for the Engine Division. With his strong business acumen, Harter also ...

Knee-jerks are part of business, one of the risks of doing business. As for knees, like most people, I have two of them, and as for jerks, I’ve been one, on occasion. I remember my own knee-jerk after ...

“Precision scheduled railroading” isn’t a household phrase, but even people with little interest in the railroad will recognize signs of it. The commuter waiting longer at a blocked railroad crossing, ...

Located near the geographical center of Pennsylvania, Altoona is a city known for transportation connections. Since the mid-1800s, transportation through western Pennsylvania has relied heavily on the ...

There is more than one way to answer that question. First, there is the more technical, more politically correct, definition that the railroads would likely prefer, which would be something like the ...