In early 2011, the band performed on NPR's World Cafe with David Dye as well as NPR's Free at Noon. On January 11, the band returned to Conan O'Brien's "Conan", performing their single "You and I Undercover." Steel Train appeared at Sunfest in West Palm Beach Florida as the opening band for MGMT on April 30, 2011. On November 13, 2012, Jack Antonoff announced on his tumblr that "there are no immediate plans to get things up and running again," and that the band would have a final show at the Bowery Ballroom on January 5, 2013. They returned for the Shadow of the City festival in 2016.