The oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada is off the tracks as it waits for a new set of tubes to be installed on its boiler. The locomotive is halted in a repair shop at the Prairie Dog Central ...

LECLAIRE, Iowa (KWQC) - The Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railroad’s Empress 2816 made its way through the Quad Cities once again on it’s way to it’s final destination in Wennipeg Canada. Back in May, ...

STAUNTON — The cranes raised them up onto railway cars that will transport them back home. For years, steam locomotives 1238 and 1286 lived at C&O Flats on the western edge of downtown Staunton. They ...

If you’re used to watching freight trains click by in Western Canada, a hydrogen fuel cell locomotive wouldn’t immediately stand out. It looks the same. It moves the same. It’s still steel wheels on ...

The Empress is making its way across three countries in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the completion of a railway that runs from Canada to Mexico. On Sunday, it stopped in Moose Jaw, Sask ...

LAWRENCE — When the Kinks’ Ray Davies penned the tune “Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,” the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at ...

Wilmerding, Pa.-based Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies, more commonly known as Wabtec (WAB 0.40%), is going ever greener in Canada. On Tuesday, Wabtec announced that its MotivePower subsidiary has ...

Steam turbine-powered locomotives never really caught on. Similar to gas turbine engines, steam turbines are efficient at certain rpm, and extremely inefficient at many others. At high speeds, they ...