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January 27, 2021

Another SMS Baldwin Enters Service

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.

January 19, 2021

BNSF Railway will spend more than $2 million over the next seven years to try and reduce grizzly bear fatalities along Marias Pass.

January 18, 2021

A group of developers and investors purchased the South Wilkes-Barre Boulevard property a few years ago for $1.2 million.

January 15, 2021

A week after a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, Amtrak CEO Bill Flynn said the railroad is boosting security ahead of the Inauguration.

January 14, 2021

Brightline tells investors that construction of the main line is coming in on time and on budget.