Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena says he wants the world’s heaviest operational steam locomotive — Big Boy 4014 — to make its first ...

Norfolk Southern didn’t mind being late to the AC-traction party. And NS wasn’t just fashionably late, either. As Burlington ...

The relocation of the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railway steam engine displayed near 14th Street West has begun as the coal tender attached to the locomotive displayed in Huntington since 1962 was ...

A new railway training centre has been named after the man behind some of Britain's best-known steam locomotives. Sir Nigel ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The restoration of a World War 2-era steam locomotive, Number 576, is forging ahead at full speed, as it finally receives its wheels back. With the support of the Nashville ...

The Reading & Northern Railroad announced this week that T-1 class steam locomotive 2102 will lead four ‘Iron Horse Rambles’ starting in May. Built in 1945 by the Reading Company at their shops in ...

Two Victorian steam locomotives have been given a permanent home at a heritage railway in the north-east of England. Twizell, ...

Add a generous ninety-minute layover in Frostburg, and the full round trip clocks in at about four and a half hours. That ...

THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE ENERGY STORY: How These Locomotives Used Energy and What Was Done to Make Them More Efficient. By Walter Simpson. The Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society, Inc. Hardcover, 144 ...

They might be outdated, but their mechanism is still mesmerizing, and there’s something nostalgic about watching and hearing a steam locomotive. It’s not something an electric motor can give you, ever ...