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January 12, 2022

Amtrak Releases Specially-Painted Operation Lifesaver Locomotive

Amtrak P-42 203 recently headed east after being painted at Beech Grove in a special scheme honoring Operating Lifesaver.

January 12, 2022

Amtrak says regular Empire Builder service is expected to resume on Thursday.

January 10, 2022

Montana Rail Link was created in 1987 when industrialist Dennis Washington leased the former Northern Pacific across Montana.

January 10, 2022

Northern Central Railway’s 1906 gondola will be restored this spring for bike train service.

January 10, 2022

Railroading Heritage of Midwest America says Silvis, Ill., shops will be the largest historic railroad restoration facility in the country.

January 7, 2022

Yet another diesel at Baldwin stronghold SMS Railroad Co. has returned to service, this time a former Monongahela Railway S12 model.

January 6, 2022

Canadian Pacific has said it would support the expansion of passenger rail service in the southeast if its able to merge with Kansas City Southern.

January 6, 2022

Efforts to save BO Tower in Kalamazoo, Mich., were unsuccessful and it was demolished on December 28.

January 5, 2022

Siegfried Buerling, who died last week, founded the Ohio tourist railroad back in 1972.

January 4, 2022

A fire damaged the cab of the former Canadian National 0-6-0 but thankfully it was put out before it spread to the 1874-built roundhouse.