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

In 1928, the Northern Pacific went shopping for a locomotive that could eliminate doubleheading on the eastern end of its ...

After a $500,000 overhaul, the William H. Simpson No. 17 steam engine is back to enchant York County's holiday season ...

BNSF Railway, the largest railroad in the U.S. and a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, will begin testing liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a locomotive fuel. (H/T Chris Phoenix) BNSF estimates that, ...

Illinois Central steam locomotive No. 790 had spent 55 years in freight service and was headed for the scrap yard in 1959 when “railfan” Lou Keller bought it and brought it to Cedar Rapids from ...

LAHORE: The image of a steam engine transports one back a couple centuries to the height of the Industrial Age. Perhaps no other invention so neatly captures the spirit of the epoch than the lumbering ...

A replica steam locomotive built in Warwickshire is about to be shipped across the Atlantic to form the centrepiece of a $9m open-air museum railroad project. The engine has been built over the last ...

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Noel Poirier, executive director of the Age of Steam Roundhouse, walks near Canadian Pacific No. 1293, built in 1948 by Canadian Locomotive Co. It is one of two steam locomotives at the Age of Steam ...

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