Norfolk Southern didn’t mind being late to the AC-traction party. And NS wasn’t just fashionably late, either. As Burlington ...

Our Juniata Locomotive Shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania, comprises one of the largest facilities for locomotive repair in the industry. Today, the shop complex is situated across 70 acres, with ...

Minnesota Transportation Museum volunteers have returned a 1949 EMD SW1 diesel locomotive to operation. The unit was built ...

What do "The Avengers," "Transformers," and "Terminator Salvation" have in common? They all filmed at the abandoned steam locomotive repair shops in Albuquerque, N.M. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser ...

Book of the week From about 1880 to 1955 – the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's steam locomotive repair shops were a dominant industrial presence and driving economic force in Albuquerque. A ...

The Union Pacific locomotive facility south of Morrill will close next year according to company officials. UP Senior Communications Director Kristin South says the locomotive repair shop will close ...

Union Pacific Railroad has closed its longtime locomotive repair shop in El Paso and laid off workers as part of the company's nationwide streamlining plan. Union Pacific on Nov. 26 laid off 191 ...

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New York’s MTA Metro-North Railroad has awarded a design-build contract to Skanska-ECCO for the final phase of rebuilding its Croton-Harmon Shops and Yard complex. The facility was built in the early ...

The patients arrive in various states of disrepair, their bodies battered and scarred, their innards groaning from a variety of ailments. Six months later, after extensive treatment, they emerge as ...