Two cameras positioned on top of the Johnstown train station will now broadcast rail traffic globally as part of the Virtual Railfan streaming platform starting Dec. 2. This project was made possible ...

It’s been a long time since the golden age of rail in North America. With the push to further develop airplanes during World War II, travel after the war became much faster and easier by air. Still, ...

TACOMA, Wash. — There are probably more glamorous places to spend a summer day than a track side parking lot in Chehalis, but there's no place my teenage son, Cooper, would rather be right now.

FOLKSTON, Georgia (CNN) -- Rain or shine, 80-year-old Cookie Williams plops himself on the wooden viewing platform perched over double train tracks. On this warm May afternoon, a patient Williams sits ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski / Dave Abeles of Lebanon, N.J., and his brother, Ben Abeles of Winterstown, Pa., (from left) talk trains with Josh Hollands of Bistow, Va., on The Station Inn front ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Michigan's first live train cameras have been installed in Battle Creek. Virtual Railfan held a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday at Community Action, and invited train enthusiasts ...

SLATON, Texas (KCBD) - In his younger years, it was common for Bill Wagner to spend his free time following trains. In the summer of 1970, Wagner, then a student at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., ...

Hilarious footage showing 'the world's most excited trainspotter' going loco over some 'special heritage equipment' is gathering pace online. The short video, filmed by the as yet unnamed railfan, ...

I might have to buy a PS3 just to play this: That's RailFan, a Japanese subway simulator which will be of little interest to 99 percent of gamers and dream-fulfilling to a handful of people like me.