SPRINGFIELD — Springfield Union Station now has a high-definition camera broadcasting a 24/7 livestream of train traffic to a network of aficionados known as railfans. I write about business for The ...

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Railfans will have to find a new place to sit on the new regional rail trains. SEPTA has decided to permanently rope off the first bench in every new Silverliner V train, that’s the seating that sits ...

True confession (as if you didn’t know): I am a railfan. But don’t call me a “foamer!” People who love trains come in all shapes and sizes, but “foamer” is a term they universally hate. “Foamers” is ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski / Dave Abeles of Lebanon, N.J., and his brother, Ben Abeles of Winterstown, Pa., (from left) talk trains with Josh Hollands of Bistow, Va., on The Station Inn front ...

Virtual Railfan captured video of a train derailment around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning at Santa Fe Junction near the state line and West 25th Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Union Pacific confirmed it ...

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.