Many of us have had that moment in our lives when we dream of becoming a locomotive engineer. It’s a fascinating career, but what does it take to get there in today’s high-demand world of modern ...

After 40 years of service with SEPTA, a trailblazing train operator is calling it a career. Jackie Pettyjohn made history as SEPTA's first female train engineer, according to the transit agency. On ...

The engineer of the NJ Transit train that crashed through a concrete barrier at Hoboken Terminal in 2016, killing a woman walking in the station and injuring 100 on board, will have a new job ...

Robert Burkhardt working as a new locomotive engineer in 1980. Few things resonate sweeter than a solid father-son relationship. That’s especially true when sons proudly follow in their father’s ...

It was 1976, a year when there was a resurgence of leisure train travel with the start of Amtrak, when Class I railroads in the Northeast joined to form Conrail, and railroads across the nation ...

A TIME TO HONOR CHANGEMAKERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND THERE ARE SOME, OF COURSE, RIGHT HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY. EDWINA JUSTICE WAS THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE TRAIN ENGINEER FOR UNION PACIFIC, AND SHE HOPES ...

Rae takes on the job of a Train Engineer. / Dev needs to get organized as a Paleontologist. Train Engineer Rae needs to remember the buttons to push to make the train move. Can she get the Beeples to ...

Jacqueline Pettyjohn has been riding SEPTA's rails throughout the region for the past four decades. But, on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, Pettyjohn -- who holds the distinction of being SEPTA's first ever ...