The United States of America is turning the big 250, encouraging everyone to mark the occasion by donning the red, white, and blue. Railroads, regardless of size, location, or purpose, are eagerly ...

Earlier this week we received a small box at the Model Railroader offices. What was inside? Two N scale MR&T EMD GP38-2 diesel locomotives. The models, produced by Atlas Model Railroad Co., are ...

Starting this weekend, newly painted SD40-2 diesel locomotive #1776 will be featured on the Reading & Northern Railroad’s all-day Pittston to Jim Thorpe round trip excursion trains for a limited time.

The Reading & Northern Railroad will be celebrating the semiquincentennial of the United States in a “big” way. Reading & Northern is proud to support the biggest steam locomotive in the world, Union ...

On nighttime excursions in dark-sky hot spots like Norway, New Zealand and Nevada, all you have to do is relax and look up. The stars will do the rest. On nighttime excursions in dark-sky hot spots ...

The best train journeys in the world have an intangible allure about them. Since the dawn of time, the romance of railways has seduced poets, spellbound novelists, and dealt directors the perfect hand ...

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There are lots I love about Europe: the different countries’ history, the languages, the cuisines, and, tying them all together, the efficient rail network connecting them. A train trip allows you to ...

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) offers an extensive commuter rail system that allows fans from surrounding cities and towns to conveniently travel to Boston by train. A map of the ...

The morning commute to your office job is hardly anyone’s favourite part of the day. Standing on the crowded platform, two thoughts might come to mind. One: If trains were at least twice as long, we ...

(1987) Steve Martin and John Candy lead John Hughes' freewheeling road-trip comedy. An uptight ad exec and a boisterous curtain-ring salesman struggle to get home for Thanksgiving.