Bill Habjan, a retired doctor from Lebanon, Oregon, makes the 160-mile round trip to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland’s Central Eastside twice a week to work on an old engine. “When a steam ...

Railroads transformed the world. They stitched together cities and continents, turning once-distant destinations into reachable places. While their role in daily transportation has diminished in many ...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Dec. 17, 2015 announced the addition of the Rail Heritage Map to its online Railroad Map Depot created and maintained by the STB’s Office of Environmental ...

The world’s first railway holds a unique place in history, and its rebirth became a project fueled by passion, engineering ...

Government agrees to amend Employment Rights Bill, allowing under-16s to volunteer on heritage railways like the Watercress ...

In this supplied photo, the Polson #2 steam engine heads southeast from Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland. kLik / Oregon Rail Heritage Center Portland’s railway museum is about to buy ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — The Oregon Rail Heritage Center needs to raise up to $2 million to install a turntable at its train center near the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. No, the ...

Heritage railways have been badly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Credit: Dan Shorthouse. When UK-based events company PNP Events decided to cancel its Polar Express trains running through the ...

Ronald Utt is the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Senior Research Fellow. Ms. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: My name is Ronald D. Utt. I am the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Senior Research Fellow at ...

A 133-year-old foot bridge on a heritage railway line was pulled down when a volunteer loaded a digger on to an engineering ...

Indian Railways has designated the Patalpani-Kalakund meter-gauge rail line as a heritage section, effective August 19, 2025. This decision, following Railway Board approval, aims to boost tourism and ...