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Trains

Michigan Central Station celebrates revival • Concert, tours mark reopening of long-neglected Detroit landmark

Vent and burn at East Palestine was not needed, NTSB concludes • Agency also criticizes Norfolk Southern response

Study says longer trains have greater likelihood of derailment • Methodology and conclusions of report by researchers at three universities are questioned by some experts

Norfolk Southern, short lines see success with joint program • Short Line Performance Project aims to improve reliability of interchange with smaller railroads

Supreme Court to review Uinta Basin decision

A train with no name is just not the same • Named passenger trains connect past and present

Jersey-style eye candy • Heritage locomotive wraps and special paint schemes abound on NJ Transit

A SLOW PATH TO HIGHER SPEED • Inside a quarter-century’s work for 110-mph Amtrak running on UP in Illinois

WHAT IS A “FLASHING GREEN?”

A UNIQUE “DAMPENING DEVICE”

FIGHTING WITH FLIPS

VIP RUN DRAMA

New life on a (very) old branch • Ex-SP route to Placerville mixes urban and rural with light rail, freight, and two heritage lines

WEST SIDE STORY • A final Conrail passenger move on New York’s West Side Freight Line

Lesson(s) learned • Confronting the elephant in the room

Museum closed by flood waters • Big Sioux River inundates Sioux City Railroad Museum

Traveling the Main Line today • Riding Amtrak’s Keystone and Pennsylvanian

CHICAGO’S CICERO AVENUE • Eighteen rail lines hosting 650 daily trains along 42 miles of road

GALLERY: BILL STECK