TACOMA, Wash. — There are probably more glamorous places to spend a summer day than a track side parking lot in Chehalis, but there's no place my teenage son, Cooper, would rather be right now.

Cameras were aimed at the approaching train as a cluster of people gathered on both sides of the railroad tracks along Ferry Street. Their anticipation was not for a celebrity, politician or even a ...

“It’s on the Y chromosome, I think,” Wolff said, laughing, explaining that male rail fans outnumber female ones. “It may be latent, but it’s there. It got me when I moved to Chicago in 1979 because ...

On a balmy Sunday afternoon late last month Richard Whitenight did what he often does on his days off He went to a busy railroad junction in Fort Worth Texas to watch the trains roll by. But as he sat ...

Reggie McGee watched the third train rumble past in less than an hour. It curved north at the “diamond,” where tracks cross east to west and north to south, taking a well-used route between Pittsburgh ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski / The Station Inn Bed & Breakfast railfan guests watch the mainline from the front covered porch. CRESSON – The large railroad locomotive sounds its horn as it moves ...

What goes around comes around when you talk technology in Tehachapi. Not the 21st century kind, depicted by the 5,000 futuristic-looking turbine propellers that line mountaintops east of town and spin ...

One small word keeps coming up among those anticipating this week's historic visitor to Eastern Iowa. 'This is obviously kind of a big deal,' said Darren Ferreter. 'This is a big deal,' echoed Nick ...