The event near downtown Calgary marked the first time in more than a year that Canadian Pacific H1b 4-6-4 2816 appeared in public and under steam railfan.com/cp-2816-make...

Regular freight service has returned to the Washington, Idaho & Montana Railway railfan.com/freight-serv...

The Norfolk & Western Business Car 300 Preservation Society announced in September that it had raised the $35,000 needed to acquire the last surviving N&W American Car & Foundry 12-4 sleeping car railfan.com/non-profit-r...

Our annual Alco issue is out now! This year, we look at the diesels of the Nevada Northern Railway, the restoration of an Alco PA and the last surviving C-430 in freight service! Get your copy today: shop.whiteriverproductions.com/products/rfr...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are not waiting to merge to find the benefits of increased collaboration railfan.com/up-ns-launch...

The Finger Lakes Rail Experience, which started earlier this year on the Finger Lakes Railway, is extending its season into fall with a series of trips from Waterloo, N.Y. railfan.com/finger-lakes...

On August 29, the Mount Washington Cog Railway resumed its regular steam operations, almost four months after announcing that both of its steam locomotives needed repairs railfan.com/steam-return...

A popular handcar tour on a former Southern Pacific branch line in California came to an end on September 1, after four years of operation railfan.com/final-handca...

While it has faced intense pressure to join with another railroad to form a transcontinental line that would rival a combined UP-NS, CSX has chosen a different path railfan.com/amid-pressur...

And the winners are... Today, we're sharing the winners of the 2025 Center Spread Contest. Be sure to keep an eye in print for information about next year's competition! railfan.com/2025-railfan...

A former Nickel Plate Road GP9 is headed to an Ohio tourist railroad where it will be restored to operation railfan.com/nickel-plate...

The National Capital Trolley Museum in Montgomery County, Maryland, has acquired a rare PCC car from the Netherlands railfan.com/european-pcc...

A 30-inch gauge 0-6-2T saddle-tank steam locomotive has been restored in Hawaii railfan.com/saddle-tank-...

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board has approved Watco’s acquisition of the Great Lakes Central Railroad railfan.com/stb-approves...

On August 21, Chicago’s Regional Transportation Authority voted to shift $74 million in discretionary funding from Metra and Pace (the region’s bus system) to the Chicago Transit Authority railfan.com/chicago-stav...

Just two years after completing a merger of its own, CPKC officials stated this week that they are not interested in further consolidation of the North American rail network railfan.com/cpkc-were-no...

After years of delays and anticipation, Amtrak’s new NextGen Acela entered revenue service on Wednesday morning with departures from Boston and Washington, D.C. railfan.com/nextgen-acel...

BNSF will not be merging with CSX or NS, despite rival UP gunning for a transcontinental consolidation railfan.com/warren-buffe...

Canada’s Rocky Mountaineer will introduce a new limited service in 2026 called “Passage to the Peaks” that will link Jasper and Banff, Alberta, via Kamloops, B.C. railfan.com/rocky-mounta...

The Great Plains Transportation Museum’s former Santa Fe FP45 locomotive is headed to Mid-America Car in Kansas City, Mo., for a cosmetic restoration railfan.com/santa-fe-fp4...

The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad is hosting Maryland Railfest from September 12 to 14, a three-day celebration of railroading in the region railfan.com/wmsr-to-host...

A hedge fund group and major CSX stockholder is pressuring the railroad to merge with another Class I — either BNSF Railway or CPKC — in response to Union Pacific’s proposed takeover of Norfolk Southern railfan.com/hedge-fund-u...

Regular Amtrak service between New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., began on August 18, nearly 20 years after passenger service east of the Big Easy was discontinued railfan.com/mardi-gras-s...

Dwight A. Smith, founder of the Conway Scenic Railroad, died on August 8, 2025. He was 100 years old. railfan.com/dwight-a-smi...

The City of Rockaway Beach, Ore., has requested that a section of former Southern Pacific tracks, now used by the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad, be removed and replaced with a trail railfan.com/oregon-coast...

The Salamanca Rail Museum in western New York has had to leave its longtime home at a former Buffalo, Rochester, & Pittsburgh Railway depot built in 1912 railfan.com/new-york-rai...

The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is gearing up to celebrate the 100th anniversary of one of the most recognizable locomotive types from the famed Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge: The K-36 railfan.com/cumbres-tolt...

After years of delays and canceled debuts, the next generation of Amtrak’s high-speed Acela train will finally enter revenue service on the Northeast Corridor on August 28 railfan.com/new-acela-tr...

The Wheeling & Lake Erie, the over 800-mile regional railroad that runs through Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, is being sold to FTAI Infrastructure, Inc., for $1.05 billion railfan.com/wheeling-lak...

Minnesota’s Northstar commuter rail will come to an end in January railfan.com/northstar-co...

The Pueblo Railway Museum is hosting a “Railfan Day” on August 9, which will feature short train rides, a photo freight, slide shows, and more railfan.com/colorado-mus...

New York’s Adirondack Railway Preservation Society has acquired two additional Alco C-430 locomotives from the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad, just months after purchasing another Century from the short line railfan.com/adirondack-r...

The operator of Portland’s MAX light rail announced in late July that it would reduce service by 18 percent — the largest cut in the system’s history — due to a lack of state funding railfan.com/portland-max...

BNSF Railway donated a historic SD70MAC to the Illinois Railway Museum railfan.com/bnsf-donates...

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 2926 will be under steam on September 27 and 28 for New Mexico Railroad Days at the Albuquerque South Rail Yards railfan.com/santa-fe-292...

A day after Union Pacific announced its intent to acquire Norfolk Southern, many shippers and stakeholders withheld opinions on the proposal. The few who did expressed skepticism about a plan that could significantly change the North American rail network railfan.com/shippers-sta...

BREAKING NEWS: Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern announced on July 29 that the two Class I railroads are merging to create the first single, transcontinental railroad in the United States railfan.com/union-pacifi...

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific S3 Class 4-8-4 261 will lead back-to-back excursions over the Twin Cities & Western in October railfan.com/milwaukee-ro...

BREAKING NEWS: Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern announced Thursday that they are in talks to merge into a single transcontinental railroad railfan.com/up-ns-confir...

Canadian National is considering discontinuing service on portions of the former British Columbia Railway railfan.com/cn-considers...

What many considered unthinkable just a few years ago could become a reality. According to multiple reports, Union Pacific and BNSF Railway are looking to merge with their eastern Class I counterparts, Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation railfan.com/report-bnsf-...

Rowland made his money in the commodity trading market, but his true passion was steam railroading, and in the 1960s and 1970s, he was responsible for some of the biggest steam-powered spectacles of the preservation era railfan.com/ross-rowland...

The Grand Canyon Lodge, a hotel built by the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1930s, was destroyed in a wildfire, the National Park Service announced on July 13 railfan.com/historic-rai...

Chicago & North Western 1385 — the R-1 Class 4-6-0 that last operated in the 1990s — returned to its home at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in July after an extensive restoration railfan.com/cnw-1385-ret...

Jaguar Transport Holdings is seeking to acquire two short lines in Washington, the Columbia Basin Railroad and the Central Washington Railroad railfan.com/jaguar-to-ac...

Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad debuted their restored Alco PA on July 11, the first such unit operating in the United States since 1978 railfan.com/restored-alc...

The State of California has provided Bay Area transit agencies with a $750 million loan to prevent cuts that threatened San Francisco’s historic streetcars and cable cars railfan.com/muni-gets-75...

BREAKING NEWS: Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 will return to the main line this fall for a series of excursions on the Virginia Scenic Railway railfan.com/nw-611-to-re...

A General Electric 44-tonner that once worked for the U.S. Army has been restored at Kansas’ Abilene & Smoky Valley and named in honor of Abilene’s most famous resident, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower railfan.com/ike-locomoti...

Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 20 is scheduled to travel to the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in early 2026 railfan.com/rio-grande-s...