Sierra Northern Railway has acquired the assets of locomotive builder RailPower LLC as part of its efforts to develop ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

Norfolk Southern says they're working on the railroad bridge the spans the James River at Mayo Island. The work should be ...

Environmentalists file lawsuits to delay or stop construction, while liberal California judges too often rule in favor of the ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

California short-line freight railroad plans to build its hydrogen locomotive technology on RailPower's proven platform, supporting zero-emission rail solutions.

Rare California Rodent Caught On Film For First Time. The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the ...

The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the first time in the 100 years since its discovery, thanks to a group of determined university students in California. The small, ...

While the City by the Bay was inundated with rain in January 1952, its namesake, a crack streamliner from Chicago, was snowbound with 236 passengers and crew in the Sierra Nevada. Some with a ...

In May of 1882, Congress codified these fears into law by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese people from ...