The 80-year-old locomotive underwent reconstruction, boiler refurbishment and repairs to the superheaters in the past year.

Volunteers at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Telford have restored a full-scale working replica of the world's first steam ...

Every year, officials and volunteers at the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso transform the steam locomotive known as the ...

Rail enthusiasts gathered to see a historic locomotive mark a milestone as it raced up the East Coast Main Line at the fastest speed travelled by a steam train in almost half a century. Bittern, an A4 ...

Deep in the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a remarkable piece of history chugs along every single day. The coal mine in ...

WEST CHICAGO, Ill. (WLS) -- The world's largest steam-powered locomotive is rolling its way through Chicago's suburbs, and drawing large crowds everywhere it goes. It's called the "Big Boy," and it's ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them that ...