Who decided that the sound of a train whistle should be described as “lonesome?” I’ve been on a number of trains and in several stations, and there are plenty of people around. Yet the word “lonesome” ...

When I was a boy there was no nicer sound than the “lonesome” sound of the steam locomotive’s “whistle” as it pulled a mile-long freight train across the Midwest farmland. But when the steam ...

If you think you’re dreaming about ghost trains running at night along the unopened West Lake Corridor route, you might not be dreaming. On Monday, the South Shore Line began running a two-car train ...

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Durango and Silverton’s railroad continues to struggle, to the detriment of the company and both communities. Applying physical distancing created an uneconomic business. Narrow gauge passenger cars ...

In 2006, the city of Nashville, Tenn., built a new commuter-rail system—christened the Music City Star—for $41 million. At the time, the Regional Transportation Authority of Nashville called it “the ...