Until about 18 months ago, shippers of perishable products that consigned their loads to refrigerated boxcars had to act on faith that a shipment would make its way cross country at the right ...

DONNA HEALY Of The Gazette Staff Jan 31, 2009 Jan 31, 2009 0 Toward the end of World War II, railroad boxcars turned into company houses for some Laurel families. Though the cars are long gone, the ...

The Interstate Commerce Commission, ordinarily a pretty lethargic outfit, loudly cried crisis a couple of weeks ago. There was such a severe shortage of plain railroad boxcars that the ICC felt it ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The train passes by, much too slowly for those of us stuck at the train crossing. Car after car, little to break the monotony of black tankers and brown boxcars. There's a boxcar ...

Time for a little bit of sleuthing. This isn't the mystery of a boxcar standing beneath a protective cover on the grounds of Louisiana's Old State Capitol. Its explanatory plaque pretty much spells ...

To Montana Rail Link employees who daily see the often-elaborate graffiti painted on boxcars roll by them in their train yard, it's a bit of both. "It's become more and more prevalent," says ...

A true Arkansas original passed away on Jan. 26 at his home in Gurdon. His name was Russell Lloyd Butler, but you may have known him as buZ blurr or Colossus of Roads, the creator of boxcar art and ...

In the late 1940s, the second-largest rail repair and transfer facility in the United States, with some of the newest technology, was built in Silvis. It served 33 trains a day on 20 one-mile tracks, ...