Late winter is the best time to camp in the desert, in my humble opinion. Daytime temperatures are milder, and the evenings are brisk. Before this trip, it had been months since my last one.

A proposed new, 6-mile Union Pacific branchline in the Phoenix area would have no significant environmental impacts so long ...

Amtrak will be closing over 350 miles of Southern California railroad service on March 7-8 to complete critical track ...

After the federal Surface Transportation Board rejected a merger application between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern in ...

Twenty-five Big Boy locomotives were originally built for Union Pacific to haul heavy freight over Utah’s Wasatch Range during World War II. Eight were preserved after retirement more than six decades ...

Dozens of whistle stops have been announced for the western leg of Big Boy’s historic coast-to-coast tour in 2026. In Wyoming, that includes: ...