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 ...

A deadly commuter crash in Southern California is now being attributed to a locomotive engineer who failed to stop at a red signal—possibly because he was text-messaging while on the job. How do ...

A low-cost training program for rail workers of the future will hold an open house Thursday, Nov. 21. The Stockton event will highlight jobs in the growing passenger and freight services in the ...

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 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 ...

After a hard day at work, most people like to relax with a frosty beer in hand. But for some freight rail workers, taking care of your beer is their full-time job. In a rail yard outside of Chicago, ...

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 ...