ROCKHILL FURNACE, Pa. – More than $10 million has been invested to date in rescuing and restoring the narrow gauge East Broad Top Railroad in central Pennsylvania. EBT Foundation General Manager Brad Esposito didn’t hesitate to name that figure in response to a question during his state-of-the-railroad review, part of the Foundation’s Winter Spectacular event […]
The Lionel Collectors Club of America (LCCA) announces a custom-run Lionel GP40-2 as part of the VisionLine line. The locomotive features EMD GP40-2 engine sounds, road number specific details and lighting, new crew figures, O-60 operation, and much more. Expected delivery in late 2026. Price: $765 (for LCCA members). To order, visit the club’s website […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Beginning April 7 from Denver and April 10 from Salt Lake City, Rocky Mountaineer’s U.S. brand, Canyon Spirit, will begin operating weekly “Rockies to Red Rocks” round trips. These travel on the California Zephyr’s route plus passage over Union Pacific’s Cane Creek branch in Utah through mid-November. However, there are no […]
Craig Fuller is the CEO at FreightWaves. The freight market has been sending mixed signals for months, but one trend stands out clearly as we move deeper into 2026: Trucking spot rates have staged a meaningful recovery, while intermodal rates remain stubbornly anchored near cycle lows. Look at the data. Truckload spot rates (inclusive of […]
ESSEX, Mont. — LOGE Glacier, the former Izaak Walton Inn beloved by railfans for its location adjacent to BNSF Railway’s Northern Transcon route and Glacier National Park, will close next month because its parent company is in financial distress. LOGE Camps is slated to close all its operations, the Flathead Beacon reports. The LOGE website […]
Railroad engineers — or train drivers, as they are known to most of the world — are the focus of two of the articles in the latest installment of Trains.com’s occasional Recommended Reading feature. First up, we have this article from UK newspaper The Telegraph on a driver for the Caledonian Sleeper, the London-to-Scotland passenger […]
VOORHEESVILLE, N.Y. — The village of Voorheesville, thwarted in court in its effort to prevent a new Norfolk Southern crew-change facility, is now seeking to prevent the railroad from receiving future grants from the State of New York — as well as saying that the state should recover money already given to NS. The Albany […]
NEW YORK — Federal money is once again flowing to the Hudson Tunnel project, as the Department of Transportation released the first $30 million in overdue funds today (Friday, Feb. 13). The money is the first portion of more than $200 million which has been withheld by the Trump administration since last October. It was […]
Boston & Maine Railroad’s 72-mile White Mountain Branch from the state capital of Concord north to Lincoln served paper mills and forestry companies, but the railroad abandoned this route half a century ago as those businesses shut down. Fortunately, the entire line has survived, and two family-owned tourist train operations and a rail-bike attraction on […]
England may have invented the railroad, but the United States invented the mountain-climbing cog railroad. The first such successful cog—a standard railroad with flanged wheels, but with the addition of a gear engaging a toothed “rack” rail in the center of the tracks—was the Mount Washington Cog Railway, which opened in 1869 and has been […]
Located just steps from Portland’s historic Old Port district, the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad & Museum offers rides aboard equipment from the state’s historic 2-foot gauge railroads that ran between the 1870s and 1940s. Choices The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad & Museum offers 40-minute excursion runs along Casco Bay with excellent views of the water […]
LEEDS, England — How do you mark the launch of a new, faster passenger rail service? For one British operator, the answer was to hold a “speed dating” event matching singles from the two endpoints of the new service. The event on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at the Leeds station was sponsored by Northern Rail, the […]
