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January 29, 2021

B&O Museum Completes Restoration of EA

The restoration of Baltimore & Ohio EA 51 took five years; the locomotive will be put on display at B&O Museum.

January 29, 2021

The Nevada Northern Railroad would like the state to give it control of two buildings on its 56-acre site: the East Ely Depot and a freight house.

January 28, 2021

In the weeks since Rio Grande Pacific announced it wanted to lease the Tennessee Pass line dozens of comments have been filed with the STB.

January 28, 2021

CEO Bill Flynn said that Amtrak needed more money to survive the pandemic but that there were opportunities for new routes too.

January 27, 2021

The newly restored and repainted SMS Rail Lines Baldwin will be ferried to the Morrisville, Pa., industrial park.

January 26, 2021

Work continues at the East Broad Top on restoring at least two 2-8-2 steam locomotives and the search is on for standard-gauge freight cars.

January 25, 2021

Bob Losse is restoring an A-B-A set of Alco FA-2 locomotives into a Pennsylvania Railroad paint scheme that has not been seen in decades.

January 22, 2021

KCS teams up with NorthPoint Development to build a new rail-served industrial park in Wylie, Tex.

January 21, 2021

Despite being under the Genesee & Wyoming banner York Rail still has a CF7 in Emons Transportation paint.

January 20, 2021

The town of Avon has decided to pay some of the legal fees for a review of Union Pacific’s plan to lease the Tennessee Pass line.