Looking for a special way to celebrate Christmas? Why not take a festive journey by train and visit with Santa this holiday season -- all while never having to leave the state. Two Alabama railroads, ...

GEORGIANA, Ala. — Revenue freight is once again moving on a short line in southern Alabama. The Pinsly Railroad Co.’s ...

A 9-by-48 foot length of train track in the Escambia County city of Brewton has been the most dangerous road-rail crossing in Alabama over the past decade. The crossing – where a daily average of ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The engineer of a train that struck and killed three homeless men on the tracks in coastal Alabama says he never saw them and did not know he had hit them. The Alabama Port ...

Is this New Orleans-to-Mobile Amtrak commuter-like train proposal “a rather complex story,” like the meaning behind the lyrics of the 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd hit, Sweet Home Alabama? For five decades, ...

Back in the 1880s, Birmingham, Ala., was a steel town nicknamed the “Pittsburgh of the South.” It was also home to the production of rails and railroad cars. Today, its steelmaking days are behind it.

The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers – Transportation Division (SMART-TD) Local 584 ratified a new five-year agreement with the Alabama & Gulf Coast ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A 120-mile (193-kilometer) stretch of Alabama railway is in line for improvements with help from a $5 million federal grant. The Federal Railroad Administration on Thursday ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Birmingham City Council passed an amendment Tuesday to add four cameras at railroad crossings. City leaders said the extra cameras will be placed at crossings throughout ...