After a year on the sidelines for repairs, Pere Marquette 1225 returned to the rails Thursday, Nov. 20, fully coupled and ...

The 80-year-old locomotive underwent reconstruction, boiler refurbishment and repairs to the superheaters in the past year.

Freight trains have grown longer over the past two decades, blocking highways, delaying passenger trains and increasing the potential for derailments as regulatory safeguards have lagged, a new ...