August 2026: Join the chase as Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 makes the first leg of its Eastern tour through Ohio, New York, and northeastern Pennsylvania. Then pause with us in Scranton as tens of thousands of visitors see the 4014 reunited with Steamtown’s own 4012. New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad decorated SD40-2 3634 for a two-day Office Car Special on the Southern Tier Line, and railfans reveled with photos of the train along the Delaware River and on Starrucca Viaduct. All this and more in the August 2026 issue of Railpace Newsmagazine!

This Month

August 2026

Vol. 45, No. 8

Features

Big Boy 4014 Eastern Tour

Staff Report

Big Boy Reunion

by Mike Rinkunas

Susquehanna Office Car Specials

Staff Report

Columns

Railpace News • by Carl G. Perelman

Seashore Lines • by Dale W. Woodland

Amtrak News • by Andy Kirk

The Keystoner • by Dale W. Woodland

Allegheny Observer • by Steve Raith

News From Canada • by Jason Noe

Lake Shore News • by Matthew Brandley

New England Dispatch • by Jack Armstrong

Empire State Limited • by Stephan M. Koenig

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Hot News

August 5, 2026

AAR Reports Weekly Rail Traffic for the Week Ending August 1, 2026

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending August 1, 2026. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 526,410 carloads and intermodal units, up 2.4 percent compared with the same week last year.

August 4, 2026

RBMN Smashes All Carload Volume Records

Reading & Northern Railroad handled 19,000 carloads in the first six months of 2026, a record volume for the first six months of any year in its history. Traffic was strong in all of R&N’s diverse traffic groups. Although the largest growth was in frac sand and rock salt the carload leaders remained forest products, over 5000 carloads, and anthracite coal, over 4000 carloads. Overall traffic is running 20% higher than last year’s volume.

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