Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, ...

In late July, the Department of Justice took up a cause it hadn’t touched since the late 1970s: It sued a freight railroad for delaying Amtrak trains. In the lawsuit, the DOJ alleges that on tracks ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — As freight trains have grown longer, the U.S. has seen an increase in the number of a type of derailment caused by the forces of railcars pushing and pulling against each other, the ...

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...