A short line in British Columbia that depends on wood products is suffering due to the ongoing trade war between the United States and Canada. Now, it’s leading to the cancellation of popular holiday excursions railfan.com/tariffs-hit-...

San Francisco is saying goodbye to a fleet of light rail vehicles that expanded transit service in the city during the 1990s dot-com boom. However, at least one of the retired cars is heading to a new home at the Western Railway Museum. railfan.com/bye-bye-bred...

The Railway Museum of British Columbia has completed a long-awaited cosmetic restoration of British Columbia Electric Railway motor 960 railfan.com/bc-museum-re...

Chicagoland transit authorities, including Metra and the Chicago Transit Authority, will avoid falling off the fiscal cliff in 2026 after the Illinois General Assembly passed legislation to provide $1.5 billion in funding without creating new taxes railfan.com/illinois-pas...

Reading & Northern Railroad made a $10 million offer in early October to purchase the railroad assets of the Luzerne County Redevelopment Authority, which R.J. Corman currently operates railfan.com/reading-nort...

The city of Ottawa, Ont., is studying the potential to transfer the responsibility of the O-Train light rail system to the province railfan.com/ottawa-consi...

One of only three surviving Denver & Rio Grande Western C-16 class 2-8-0 locomotives will be restored to operation railfan.com/rio-grande-c...

BNSF Railway announced this week that the years-long effort to install Positive Train Control along the former Montana Rail Link is nearly complete. Activation of PTC is expected to bring about several significant changes along the route railfan.com/ptc-almost-d...

In an era of fast digital cameras, photographer Dennis Livesey decided to slow things down. Read all about it in this month's Camera Bag railfan.com/using-a-spee...

Amtrak service could return to Detroit’s famed Michigan Central Station — or at least a new one built nearby railfan.com/amtrak-could...

The Willamette Shore Trolley became Oregon’s first solar-powered railroad this fall and only the second in the world railfan.com/willamette-s...

For the first time in the agency’s history, Metro-North trains will serve New York’s Capital Region railfan.com/metro-north-...

Cando entered the lithium-ion era with the launch of a new battery-powered locomotive this fall railfan.com/cando-goes-b...

One of the nation’s largest railroad unions is calling for a drone ban at rail yards and along main lines, a move that could significantly impact railroad photographers who have recently taken to the sky to capture photos railfan.com/rail-union-c...

A wood trestle on the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad was damaged by fire on October 8, and the cause of the blaze is still under investigation railfan.com/oregon-coast...

New York, Susquehanna, & Western SY 2-8-2 142 has returned to service at the Belvidere & Delaware River Railway in New Jersey railfan.com/nysw-142-ret...

Five years after the pandemic, @MetroNorth is seeing signs of a full recovery. This week, we caught up with its new president to discuss the future of one of America's biggest commuter railroads railfan.com/exclusive-in...

David Fink, former president of Pan Am Railways, was confirmed on October 7 as the next administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration railfan.com/former-pan-a...

BNSF Railway made its strongest argument yet against the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger by releasing a position paper that states the combination would cause chaos on the national rail network and negatively affect shippers railfan.com/bnsf-no-cust...

The Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum in Ohio has acquired Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 2-6-6-2 1308 from the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society in West Virginia railfan.com/age-of-steam...

A proposal is being floated to revive the isolated Black Mesa & Lake Powell Railroad in northeastern Arizona for tourist operations railfan.com/potential-bl...

BREAKING NEWS: CSX Transportation announced on Monday that CEO Joe Hinrichs had departed and was being replaced by Steve Angel railfan.com/csx-ceo-sudd...

This week, one of the nation's largest rail unions made an unprecedented announcement, stating that it would throw its support behind the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger railfan.com/union-backs-...

Railroad journalist and columnist Don Phillips died on September 23 after a years-long illness. He was 83. railfan.com/don-phillips...

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...