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June 24, 2024
Country’s Last ‘Fair Train’ Returns to the Rails After Five-Year Hiatus
The Strates Shows “Fair Train” will run from Florida to New York in August for the first time since 2019.
June 21, 2024
Smallest Maine 2-Footer To Be Revived at WW&F
Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington 9 — the only surviving steam locomotive for three of Maine’s famed 2-footers — will be lettered for the Kennebec Central.
June 20, 2024
L&N SD40 Returns to Tennessee
An EMD SD40 built as Louisville & Nashville 1230 in April 1969, has come home to Tennessee after nearly three decades.
June 19, 2024
Virginia, Norfolk Southern in Talks to Buy Manassas Line
The deal would allow the state to expand passenger service into the New River Valley on Norfolk Southern
June 18, 2024
Union Pacific Announces ‘Heartland of America Tour’
A month after returning from California, Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4014 will head south and east.
June 18, 2024
Ann Arbor RS-1 Renewed Again
The locomotive was purchased by Ann Arbor in 1950 and wears a Wabash-inspired paint scheme.
June 17, 2024
Flying Scotsman Gets New Operator
Deal calls for the locomotive to make at least 20 main line appearances annually.
June 14, 2024
Suspension of Amtrak’s ‘Adirondack’ Service Extended
The train is currently operating as far north as Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The full route won’t reopen until fall.
June 13, 2024
SEPTA’s PCC Streetcars Return to Service
The iconic PCC streetcars have been out of service for four years.
June 12, 2024
Midcoast Railservice Calling it Quits on Maine’s Rockland Branch
Finger Lakes subsidiary was the sixth operator on the scenic state-owned branch in 30 years.
