Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo: Mitchell Horner) The model railroad industry, along with other hobby sectors, faces an existential crisis as Trump ...

Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) executives on the company's third quarter earnings call moved to dispel any doubt that they are "all in" on switching the company's operations to precision ...

Bob Bainter is something of a rules guy. On the job with BNSF, he’s a manager of Operations and Safety Training based out of Cicero, Ill. He’s responsible for ensuring that Transportation ...

Since February's major train derailment in Ohio, freight rail safety has come under scrutiny. Many rail workers blame a relatively new business model: precision-scheduled railroading. It's one of the ...

Knee-jerks are part of business, one of the risks of doing business. As for knees, like most people, I have two of them, and as for jerks, I’ve been one, on occasion. I remember my own knee-jerk after ...

Starting with a 23-year stint in financial roles with Cummins, the local Fortune 150 company, Harter rose to director of finance for the Engine Division. With his strong business acumen, Harter also ...

When Robin Claxton was seven years old, his father built him and his little brother a model train layout with a 4’ by 8’ sheet of plywood and some old tracks and engines at the family’s home in Sharon ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Close your eyes and picture this. It’s Christmas morning in the 1970’s and you’re five years old. The morning light begins to crest through your window and you burst from your bed and ...