A few months ago I wrote about a boxcar storage shed in Crookston, Minn., my hometown. During that same visit my friend, then an employee of Minnesota Northern RR (since retired) gave me a tour of the ...

Question: Every once in a while, I notice some vehicles stop in the road at the railroad tracks when nothing is coming. Can I pass them when they do this? Answer: Some vehicles, such as passenger vans ...

Tucked away off Highway 126, on a network of railway tracks sometimes used to shoot movies, a local startup is testing what it says is the future of transportation: driverless freight trains. Parallel ...