Many of us have had that moment in our lives when we dream of becoming a locomotive engineer. It’s a fascinating career, but what does it take to get there in today’s high-demand world of modern ...

The longest-running tradition of the Rail Transportation Program (RTP), Railroad Night is the cornerstone of the RTP’s commitment to bring together interested students, industry, and faculty at ...

GEORGETOWN, Colo. (CBS4)- The first official day of summer kicked off Friday and despite the afternoon storms, you could still find a steady stream of excited families at the Georgetown Loop Railroad.

Few things resonate sweeter than a solid father-son relationship. That’s especially true when sons proudly follow in their father’s footsteps. For locomotive engineer Robert Burkhardt, that ...

It seems like a dream job. The opportunity to earn six figures, have a good union job with benefits and get some fresh air. Yet NJ Transit is struggling to hire locomotive engineers, as employees ...

In 1973, Barnie Botone got a job in Albuquerque, N.M., working on the railroad. He was 22 years old. Now, 67, Botone remembers when he told his grandmother that he'd be working as an engineer for the ...

A TIME TO HONOR CHANGEMAKERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND THERE ARE SOME, OF COURSE, RIGHT HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY. EDWINA JUSTICE WAS THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE TRAIN ENGINEER FOR UNION PACIFIC, AND SHE HOPES ...

K.C. Hill, 86, has worked for the same railroad company for almost 68 years. He started as a fireman and now works as a full-time engineer for BNSF Railway. Hill enjoys the variety of his work and the ...

It was 1976, a year when there was a resurgence of leisure train travel with the start of Amtrak, when Class I railroads in the Northeast joined to form Conrail, and railroads across the nation ...