12+ hour, 32+ min ago   (219+ words) Rival Class I railroads and a number of short line and regional operations intend to ask the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to grant them trackage rights to various parts of a combined Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern network if the federal regulator approves…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (193+ words) VIA Rail Canada has ordered 313 Adessia rail cars to replace its current long-distance passenger fleet. Courtesy Image. VIA Rail Canada has ordered 313 Adessia rail cars to replace its current long-distance passenger fleet. The $4.7 billion (Canadian) deal includes construction of the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (246+ words) New York Central L-3a 4-8-2 “Mohawk” 3001 is expected to depart Elkhart, Ind., this fall, bound for the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society shop in New Haven, Ind., where it will be returned to service. FWRHS and the National New York Central Railroad…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (304+ words) The Norfolk & Western Business Car 300 Preservation Society announced on August 21 that it was raising money to acquire a former N&W power car from the Tennessee Central Railway Museum. The planned acquisition comes as the group, founded in 2019 to preserve…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (127+ words) If approved, the combined UP-NS would stretch more than 50,000 miles and touch 43 states. The merger was first proposed in mid-2025, but the STB rejected UP’s first application as “incomplete.” The STB announced on Aug. 18 that the earliest it would make a…...