To prepare for the opening of a new rail line, conductors and engineers typically go through training to familiarize themselves with the route, its landmarks and its speed limits. Amtrak did some of ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - In a story Aug. 15 about a female railroad engineer, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Ramona Dockter was the first woman to work as a railroad engineer in 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 ...