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.

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 ...

Cameras were aimed at the approaching train as a cluster of people gathered on both sides of the railroad tracks along Ferry Street. Their anticipation was not for a celebrity, politician or even a ...

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, ...

SPRINGFIELD — Springfield Union Station now has a high-definition camera broadcasting a 24/7 livestream of train traffic to a network of aficionados known as railfans. “It’s a hotspot for railfans, ...

“It’s on the Y chromosome, I think,” Wolff said, laughing, explaining that male rail fans outnumber female ones. “It may be latent, but it’s there. It got me when I moved to Chicago in 1979 because ...

What to give the railfan who has everything? How about a Metra clock? Or a Metra body pillow? Those items and many others ...