Wheel detail of a steam locomotive. This week, officials marked the public reopening of the Central Pacific Railroad Passenger Station in Old Sacramento. The passenger station was reconstructed 40 ...

Ford's Michigan Central Station last served trains in 1988, but its autonomous vehicle staffers will still hear a dozen Canadian Pacific locomotives pass every day.

Profitable Union Pacific, which carries everything from chemicals, coal and cars across its 32,000 miles of rail line, has no plans to return to passenger service, which it concluded in 1971.