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Summer travel forecast: Better, but no blowout

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:05:09 -0400

NEW YORK - The forecast for summer travel, 2013: Partly sunny.

'All aboard' for West Point transportation museum

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:23:28 -0400

WEST POINT, Mississippi - It's not so often a grown man gets to report to work and play with trains. For Terry Craig, though, it's a weekly joy. As curator of the Sam Wilhite Transportation Museum on West Point's Depot Drive, he is not only conductor of the largest working stationary train of its scale in North Mississippi, he got to build much of it.

Amtrak's Downeaster doing fine despite disruptions

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:19:23 -0400

Ridership on Amtrak's Downeaster that travels between Brunswick, Maine, and Boston is ahead of last year despite a series of weekend disruptions caused by construction and the Boston Marathon bombings during school vacation week.

Tour companies plan changes for Interior tourists

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:58:09 -0400

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Two tour companies are changing how they will move tourists in and out of Fairbanks.

Demand for trails growing throughout Indiana

Sun, 05 May 2013 13:38:40 -0400

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana trails can lead Hoosiers past familiar urban landmarks, through bucolic country scenery, over rivers, under highways - and even, with a little imagination, to Neptune.

W.Va. scenic railroad celebrates 50 years in June

Fri, 03 May 2013 03:10:11 -0400

GREEN BANK, West Virginia - Fifty years to the day after the first tourist train made its way up Cheat Mountain, the Cass Scenic Railroad will make a special anniversary run.

Delmarva route eyed for NE corridor rail expansion

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:42:11 -0400

WILMINGTON, Delaware - A high-speed rail line across the Delmarva Peninsula is among the proposals in a plan for improving rail service along the heavily traveled Northeast corridor.

Companies, homeowners vie over royalty checks

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:24:07 -0400

MONTROSE, Pennsylvania - Growing up in the 1970s, Charles Chidester would often find old rail spikes from the abandoned Northern Electric trolley line that bisected the family farm.