Rail-biking uses specially designed vehicles that are pedaled along disused railway lines. It’s easy and fun and uses existing tracks for recreation. One writer gave it a try in the Catskills. For ...

Model railroading—a hobby enjoyed by tens of thousands—apparently has an inherently built-in solution for delivering electrical power to its locomotives. The model layout is in a confined, fixed ...

Delve into the details of vertical power delivery and how it surmounts the limits of traditional lateral power when it comes to supporting secondary power rails.

For the last 200 years, freight trains haven’t changed much; massive locomotives still move relatively dumb freight cars. Certainly, rail fans could argue that plenty has changed—they’re not ...