A majority of railroad shippers would support a transcontinental merger so long as it included concessions such as full ...

Currently some 200 old Pacific Electric red cars are piled three or four high in a mountain of rolling stock junk awaiting the searing knife flame of the torch.

The corridor was once part of the Pacific Electric Railway, or Red Car, system that provided mass transit service to Southern California.

In the early 1900s, American railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington purchased a smaller rail line between Pasadena and Los Angeles, which acted as the foundation of the Pacific Electric railway. In ...

Operated by the Pacific Electric Railway, the red streetcars provided interurban service to the greater Los Angeles area, leading to the development of suburbs in the nearby Orange, San Bernardino ...

Pacific Electric Railway Station, with the depot in Glendora, circa 1937. The Santa Fe Railway even took oranges from Glendora to the White House, for President William Howard Taft to enjoy.

Utah State Railroad Museum officials added a Western Pacific engine to the collection while the dilapidated Merci boxcar is now in Wyoming for restoration efforts.

US-based Union Pacific Railroad has struck a partnership with ZTR for the development of new hybrid-electric locomotives.

Exhibit at Union Station tells untold tale of Yellow Car electric trolleys that ran until ’63 and mimic existing lines.