Pulse of the Continent: Final Spike Steam Tour, a documentary short film coming this fall. Revisit the magic and excitement of the Empress 2816’s epic trip from Calgary to Mexico City and back. Watch the trailer. #FinalSpikeSteamTour

SMS Rail Service, the New Jersey operator known for the last large fleet of Baldwin diesel locomotives, recently acquired two Texas Southeastern units railfan.com/sms-rail-acqui…

After years of delay, it appears passenger service between New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., could finally begin following a vote by the Mobile City Council to financially support the service and lease city land for a platform railfan.com/city-council-v…

The Whitewater Valley Railroad completed a decades-long restoration effort of a rare Lima-Hamilton LS-1000 locomotive this summer railfan.com/indiana-touris…

New York, Susquehanna, & Western SY 2-8-2 142 steamed for the first time in seven years this week at the Belvidere & Delaware River Railway in New Jersey railfan.com/nysw-142-back-…

Union Pacific announced Monday that 4-8-8-4 “Big Boy” 4014 would depart Cheyenne, Wyo., on August 28, for an eight-week tour across ten states railfan.com/up-releases-he…

The United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey announced Tuesday that it had acquired a 1949 Budd-built Pullman sleeper-lounge that will join its growing fleet of New York Central passenger cars railfan.com/urhs-acquires-…

Electric trains made their long-awaited public debut on CalTrain on August 10, capping off a years-long effort to put wire over the San Francisco Peninsula commuter railroad railfan.com/caltrain-elect…

A North Carolina non-profit has signed an agreement with Norfolk Southern to purchase 31 miles of former Southern Railway right-of-way, including Saluda Grade, one of the steepest and most dangerous pieces of main line railroad in North America railfan.com/trail-group-in…

Five former Santa Fe semaphores were replaced over the weekend on a remote section of main line in northern New Mexico railfan.com/more-santa-fe-…

The Roanoke Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society has saved a Norfolk & Western GP9 that was once part of the fleet of diesel locomotives that replaced steam in passenger service railfan.com/norfolk-wester…

The State of Maine will soon begin to search for a new operator for the former Maine Central Rockland Branch, state officials tell Railfan & Railroad railfan.com/state-of-maine…

BREAKING NEWS: A vast majority of the Canadian rail network came to a standstill at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time after CPKC and Canadian National locked out engineers, conductors and some dispatchers amid an ongoing labor dispute railfan.com/canadian-rail-…

BREAKING: Seventeen hours after a vast majority of the Canadian rail network came to a standstill at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time Thursday morning, the Canadian government ordered arbitration railfan.com/canadian-rail-…

California’s Western Railway Museum is working to extend its reach thanks to the installation of additional overhead catenary railfan.com/western-railwa…

Norfolk Southern’s Triple Crown Services (TCS) subsidiary made its long-expected conversion to domestic containers when it ended the operation of dedicated RoadRailer trains on the weekend of Aug. 24 railfan.com/roadrailer-era…

Weyerhaeuser DS4-4-750 101 was trucked from Klamath Falls, Ore., to a new home at the Train Mountain Railroad Museum in Chiloquin railfan.com/oregon-baldwin…

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 4-8-4 3751 will headline Rail Safety: Los Angeles on September 21 and 22, the largest railroad safety event in downtown Los Angeles in more than a decade railfan.com/santa-fe-3751-…

Steam has once again returned to the East Broad Top after eight months of extensive repairs to its historic steam locomotive railfan.com/ebt-16-returns…

BNSF Railway has donated a 135-foot turntable to Railroading Heritage of Midwest America, which will be large enough to turn the two Union Pacific steam locomotives currently being restored at Silvis, Ill. railfan.com/bnsf-donates-t…