Update on the Santa Cruz line:
http://railroadnews.net/news/3-5.html

Dinner train proposal for the Aspen Branch in Colorado:
http://railroadnews.net/news/3-2.html

And on the AP discussion board, some frightening news (with a happy ending) about noted rail photographer Richard Steinheimer, who suffers from Alzheimers and wandered away from a baseball game he was attending with his children in Berkeley. He managed to walk five miles before becoming hungry and entering a donut shop in Albany, California, where he was finally found. Scroll down about five messages to see the rest of the story:
http://bbs.cartserver.com/bbs/p/1270/index.cgi