The Huckleberry Railroad in Michigan is the recipient of a $1.3 million grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation that will cover the restoration of a Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge 2-8-2 locomotive that last ran in 2019. railfan.com/rio-grande-2...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern informed the U.S. Surface Transportation Board on Feb. 17 that they intended to file a revised merger application on April 30. railfan.com/revised-us-n...

The Izaak Walton Inn, a historic railroad lodge at the edge of Glacier National Park in Montana, will close on March 1, as a result of “significant” financial issues. railfan.com/montanas-iza...

California’s Fullerton Train Museum has preserved the first Metrolink F59PH locomotive railfan.com/metrolink-f5...

A three-truck narrow-gauge Shay engine is heading back to California. West Side Lumber Co. 12 was recently acquired by the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad from the Colorado Railroad Museum. railfan.com/west-side-lu...

Nevada Northern Railway 2-8-0 81 is returning to service after spending more than two and a half years in the shop. railfan.com/nevada-north...

A Minnesota-based nonprofit, formed more than a decade ago to determine whether a modern steam locomotive could be built, is now being reorganized to care for and maintain the Santa Fe 4-6-4 it planned to use as a testbed. railfan.com/non-profit-r...

A dispute between the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum and the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad has gotten downright nasty ahead of this weekend's big game. railfan.com/railroad-mus...

Connecticut’s Naugatuck Railroad has repainted an SPV-2000 in its as-delivered Amtrak Phase III livery to mark the United States’ upcoming Semiquincentennial. railfan.com/naugatuck-re...

Iowa’s Sioux City Railroad Museum announced in January that it had won a $1.9 million grant from the National Park Service’s Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund to support it following a 2024 flood railfan.com/iowa-museum-...

Santa Fe 4-6-2 3415, the Baldwin built in 1919 and operated by the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad in Kansas, is on track to return to service by Labor Day 2027. railfan.com/santa-fe-4-6...

The Port of Pend Oreille in Washington State has secured a $1 million grant in an effort to revive excursion service on the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad. railfan.com/pacific-nort...

Officials at the Catskill Mountain Railroad in Kingston, N.Y., say they are considering relocating from their longtime home after years of conflict with the county railfan.com/new-york-tou...

Connecticut’s Valley Railroad announced in January that its Chinese-built 2-8-2 steam locomotive is being converted to burn oil, and if successful, the railroad will convert additional engines. railfan.com/valley-railr...

Starting June 1, the Regional Transportation Authority, the agency overseeing Chicagoland transit, will be reorganized into the Northern Illinois Transit Authority. railfan.com/goodbye-rta-...

The Alco era on the Ontario Southland is drawing to a close, but fans of the iconic locomotives shouldn’t fret. railfan.com/ontario-sout...

Batten down the hatches and prepare for a serious level of foam: Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4014 will leave Cheyenne, Wyo., on March 29, for the first part of a coast-to-coast tour railfan.com/up-big-boy-t...

The non-profit railroad museum that said last year it was leaving Port Jervis, N.Y., following a conflict with the city, has announced that it’s in talks to stay. railfan.com/museum-says-...

Société du chemin de fer de la Gaspésie, or the Gaspésie Railway Society, ran its first train from New Richmond to Port Daniel, Que., in more than a decade on January 7. railfan.com/gaspe-line-r...

The Yakima City Council voted Tuesday night to extend a five-year operating agreement with Yakima Valley Trolleys, the Washington non-profit that runs the community’s historic interurban railroad. railfan.com/yakima-troll...

Maine’s Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington is making steady progress with its effort to build a brand new 2-foot gauge 2-4-4T locomotive, and the project is getting a major boost thanks to an anonymous donor. railfan.com/wwf-makes-pr...

Steamtown National Historic Site is currently restoring a two-truck Shay locomotive, and officials say they expect to have it operating before the end of 2027. railfan.com/steamtown-to...

Hours after the U.S. Surface Transportation Board rejected Union Pacific’s application to acquire Norfolk Southern as “incomplete,” the Western Class I vowed to press on in its effort to create the first single transcontinental railroad railfan.com/up-vows-to-p...

BREAKING: The U.S. Surface Transportation Board has rejected Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern’s initial merger application as “incomplete,” telling the two railroads that if they want to become North America’s largest railroad, they’ll need to try again railfan.com/stb-up-ns-me...

On January 1, 2026, Genesee & Wyoming’s Connecticut Southern Railroad assumed control of the state-owned Armory Branch. The 14 miles of track were formerly operated by short line Central New England Railroad. railfan.com/gw-takes-cen...

A Northern Pacific 4-6-0 was fired up on New Year’s Day for the first time in over 70 years, following an extensive restoration railfan.com/northern-pac...

The fate of Yakima, Washington’s famed interurban railroad will be the subject of a city council meeting on January 20 railfan.com/city-council...

On January 12, the B&O Railroad Museum held a ribbon-cutting to mark the conclusion of the cosmetic restoration of American Freedom Train No. 1 railfan.com/restored-ame...

North America’s four Class I railroads not named Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern took aim at the proposed UP-NS merger in January, a combination that, if approved, would create the largest railroad in U.S. history railfan.com/rivals-take-...

Mario Péloquin, president of VIA Rail Canada since 2023, will retire on January 15 after more than four decades in rail and transportation railfan.com/via-rail-pre...

Northeast Rail Heritage, Inc. announced in January that it had acquired the only remaining Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Silverliner III car. railfan.com/northeast-ra...

The slow trickle of locomotives being painted to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence will likely turn into a flood as July 4, 2026, approaches. railfan.com/more-semiqui...

Minnesota’s Northstar Commuter rail made its last run on January 4, bringing to an end 16 years of commuter rail service in the Twin Cities railfan.com/northstar-ca...

Norfolk Southern has completed physical restoration activities at the site of the February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. railfan.com/east-palesti...

A Denver, Rio Grande & Western SW1200 recently arrived in Utah after being acquired by the Promontory Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. railfan.com/rio-grande-s...

The Nevada State Railroad Museum recently completed the restoration of Virginia & Truckee Transfer Car 1 railfan.com/nevada-state...

Six months after first proposing the historic combination, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern officially submitted their application to create the first single transcontinental railway on Friday railfan.com/up-ns-submit...

The non-profit that owns and maintains a historic Great Northern Railway depot in Whitefish, Mont., which is still used today by BNSF Railway and Amtrak, says the structure will soon need a new roof. railfan.com/historic-gre...

A multi-million dollar project to restore over 200 miles of former Canadian National trackage along Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula took another step forward in December with the opening of the line between Caplan and Port-Daniel railfan.com/work-continu...

An Alco-built 2-8-0 that last operated in 2019 is expected to return to service on the Grand Canyon Railway in 2026 railfan.com/grand-canyon...

Washington’s Yakima Valley Trolleys, the nonprofit responsible for running the city-owned interurban railroad that was once a subsidiary of Union Pacific, will start the new year without an operating agreement, putting the operation’s future in limbo. railfan.com/future-uncer...

The oldest surviving steam locomotive designed by Sir Nigel Gresley — the master locomotive builder behind famous engines like the Flying Scotsman — is expected to return to service in 2026. railfan.com/sir-nigel-gr...

Work is underway in Washington to cosmetically restore a Milwaukee Road U25B locomotive. railfan.com/cosmetic-res...

The public was welcomed back inside Buffalo’s former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western terminal for the first time since 1962 when the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority opened its new DL&W Station on December 8. railfan.com/buffalo-nfta...

The Battle River Railway, a farmer-owned railroad in central Alberta, has begun moving wheat in partnership with Canadian National. railfan.com/alberta-shor...

Pere Marquette 2-8-4 1225 has returned to service just in time to lead the 2025 edition of the Steam Railroading Institute’s North Pole Express excursions. railfan.com/pere-marquet...

After building 3.5 miles of track on the original right-of-way of one of Maine’s famed 2-foot gauge railroads, the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum is now planning to expand southward. railfan.com/wiscasset-wa...

TOYX, Inc., the nonprofit organization that over the past four years has attempted to establish a museum centered on the former Eire Railroad turntable in Port Jervis, N.Y., announced on December 3 that it was closing and withdrawing from the community railfan.com/rail-museum-...

BNSF Railway is urging federal regulators to examine the “harms” caused by the 1996 merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railfan.com/bnsf-calls-o...

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board has approved Fortress Investment Group’s $1.05 billion purchase of Wheeling & Lake Erie, the 982-mile regional railroad that operates through Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. railfan.com/feds-approve...