Find out which of the Rock Island Rocket passenger trains held the fitting “Rocket” name and where they went into the history books.

Like its Midwest rivals, the Chicago & North Western Railway jumped on the idea of brand-named passenger trains. However, it took a different route with the name in the form of a three-digit number: ...

A train ride through the mountains is always a delight, but there's no better time to do it than the holiday season, ...

HELENA, Mont. — Following decades of penny-pinching, the first half of the 2020s appeared to be the beginning of a golden age for passenger rail investment in the United States. Since 2021, Amtrak has ...

Why can't the US be like Europe, Japan or India—countries that all have extensive passenger train systems? On today's show, why the US chose not to. We learn why, despite this, US railroads could ...