A plan to purchase a historic Shenandoah Valley rail line that includes developing a trail moved forward on Tuesday, after ...

ON BOARD THE SANTA TRAIN — Since 1943, the people of Appalachian Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee have looked forward to Santa’s arrival. Not in a sleigh on their rooftops, but on a train. The Santa ...

Rail took a while to reach Northern Virginia. The railroad first reached Washington, DC in 1835, but it would be another twenty-six years before the line was extended across the Potomac.

Kristi K. Higgins, The Social Butterfly, rides the rails through VA's Shenandoah Valley. The Blue Ridge Flyer departs from ...

While more people than ever are hopping aboard an Amtrak train in Virginia, train delays in the state seem to be getting worse. Why it matters: The on-time performance (OTP) rate for trains along the ...

Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger is turning to an agency veteran as Virginia's next secretary of transportation: Nick Donohue, a Richmond-based consultant who has served under ...

Some Portsmouth leaders, including Mayor Shannon Glover, are trying to derail a proposed CSX train expansion that could clog traffic around the tracks along Frederick Boulevard for up half-an-hour.

Building a high-speed rail system is a matter of putting in place a large number of individually small, if expensive, improvements that gradually add up to the ability to regularly - and reliably - ...

A freight train stopped on the tracks in Burke, Virginia, on Tuesday afternoon after a rail car caught on fire. Fairfax County firefighters arrived at the railroad tracks in the 9300 block of Lee ...

SUSSEX COUNTY, Va. — A tractor-trailer hauling potato chips was struck by a Norfolk Southern train on Sunday after becoming stuck on the railroad tracks at the crossing of General Mahone Highway and ...