TACOMA, Wash. — There are probably more glamorous places to spend a summer day than a track side parking lot in Chehalis, but there's no place my teenage son, Cooper, would rather be right now.

Cameras were aimed at the approaching train as a cluster of people gathered on both sides of the railroad tracks along Ferry Street. Their anticipation was not for a celebrity, politician or even a ...

On a balmy Sunday afternoon late last month Richard Whitenight did what he often does on his days off He went to a busy railroad junction in Fort Worth Texas to watch the trains roll by. But as he sat ...

Reggie McGee watched the third train rumble past in less than an hour. It curved north at the “diamond,” where tracks cross east to west and north to south, taking a well-used route between Pittsburgh ...

Jim Boyd, editor of Railfan & Railroad magazine from the magazine’s launch in 1974 until 1998, died last week at age 69. Boyd continued as editor emeritus of the magazine, and also was author of the ...