Engineer Gus and Engineer Sam take you down the track to a fun-filled adventure with trains of all kinds. Climb into the cab with engineers and conductors who show you how they keep their trains ...

New and revived rail routes will see global train travel evolve in the year ahead, from practical cross-border links to high-end luxury journeys designed to lure travelers off planes.

When America's first railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio line, opened in 1830, it was the first thread in a web that would span a continent. What began as a modest 14 miles of track between Baltimore and ...

In September I had the opportunity to travel on Amtrak’s new, NextGen Acela trainsets. Here’s the good news, these trains are a major upgrade over the first generation Acela in terms of comfort, ride, ...

The top speed of a train on the Chuo Shinkansen line is 314 mph. Viewers laugh after watching test run of Japan's new high-speed train — here's what happened first appeared on The Cool Down.

Europe's lasting boom in short-haul air travel is not driven by consumer demand, but by a lack of rail alternatives, a new survey suggests. Peter Steffen/dpa A majority of people would prefer to take ...

SunTrain wants to use the existing freight rail system to transport clean energy from wind farms and solar arrays to the grid. Now, there’s a company looking to address that problem with a simple yet ...