Trump did not name any specific companies, but Union Pacific's pending acquisition of Norfolk Southern is the only known railroad deal currently in progress.
Investors holding $1.8 billion of bonds to finance Brightline West, a high-speed rail line between Southern California and Las Vegas, are asserting more control of the project after giving the railroad three more months to inject capital.
The town of Makanda has a proud history of reinvention. Founded as a camp for workers building the Central Illinois Railroad in 1845, the town boomed as a way station for freight destined for Chicago.…
The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in Colorado, one of the more beautiful train rides in the American West, is also a National Historic Landmark.