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October 20, 2020

VIA to Resume Weekly Service Between Vancouver and Winnipeg

VIA Rail Canada canceled all transcontinental service back in March when COVID-19 first began to impact North America.

October 20, 2020

President Lyndon B. Johnson picked Boyd to lead the new U.S. Department of Transportation in 1966. He later was named president of Amtrak.

October 19, 2020

Business car 300 has been in storage since 1991 and will be moved to Indiana, Michigan in the coming months.

October 16, 2020

The Friends of the East Broad Top will give $86,000 to the group restoring the iconic narrow gauge railroad.

October 15, 2020

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, UP has refused to let its conductors and other onboard employees on Metra collect fares.

October 14, 2020

The Oct. 31 and Nov. 14 Reading & Northern excursions will run round trip from Reading, Pa. to Jim Thorpe.

October 13, 2020

Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum is one of a number of institutions across the country to get emergency funding in response to COVID-19.

October 12, 2020

The Panama Canal Railway bridge over the Rio Chagres near Gamboa was struck by a ship, closing the railroad for three months.

October 12, 2020

Canadian National built a short stretch of track so the town of Middleton, N.S. could display its steam locomotive.

October 9, 2020

Steamtown has been working on a cosmetic restoration of Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4012 since last year.