Kansas has joined nine other states in requiring trains to have two-person crews. While Gov. Laura Kelly said the new rule could help fight against the effects of fatigue and prevent derailments, the ...

Kansas railroad regulations could soon see a new requirement that train crews operate with at least two people, although it is unclear how big of an impact such a rule would have because that is ...

Federal regulators have approved the $31 billion merger of Kansas City Southern railroad with Canadian Pacific. The new railroad, to be named Canadian Pacific Kansas City, will become the first and ...

A Canadian Pacific locomotive sits in the rail yard in the East Bottoms last year in Kansas City. The Canadian railroad recently completed its merger of Kansas City Southern, which was the nation’s ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas Governor Laura Kelly announced Wednesday that $13 million will be going toward several of the state’s railways. Kelly said 14 Kansas rail projects will be receiving the money ...

The state of Kansas on Nov. 3 will put into effect an administrative rule requiring two-person freight railroad crews. “Kansans’ safety and security must always come first, and that includes the ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KAKE) - Kansas' railroads are getting safer. That's what the Kansas Railroad Association told state lawmakers Tuesday morning. During a briefing of the Senate Transportation Committee, ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - All lead locomotives that operate on Kansas railroad tracks will now be required to have two crew members on board following the passage of a new regulation. Kansas Governor ...

OSAWATOMIE, Kan. — On Tuesday, residents of Osawatomie, Kansas, took a walk through their town history with the 30-minute stop of Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive. "Forty years of ...

(KANSAS NEWS SERVICE) - The Quindaro Townsite in Kansas City, Kansas — once a stop along the Underground Railroad for people escaping slavery and a home to abolitionists during the “Free State” era — ...