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 ...

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If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

Union Pacific's legendary Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, built to conquer mountains, is making 19 whistle-stops in five states including Nevada this summer during ...

SUNOL — Steam engines are alive, says Ronald Vale. “It sits there and it hisses at you. You hear the whine of the turbo generator. … The air pump will pump. It’s just more alive than a diesel ...

One of the world’s largest steam locomotives stopped in Covina on Sunday as it embarked on a journey to be restored as a living piece of history. Hundreds of train enthusiasts greeted and sent off the ...

It’s been more than two centuries since Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick showed off his railway invention in the Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil, changing the world in the process. By ...

A rare diesel locomotive destined for demolition in California has found refuge in Berks County, thanks to a joint preservation effort by railroad executives, the government and Reading Railroad ...

In the January 1949 issue, Popular Mechanics witnessed the end of the steam locomotive era as the American Locomotive Company, in its 100th year of operation (when combined with the history of its pre ...

Surprisingly, the weather 200 years ago obliged, with the Durham County Advertiser describing it as “propitious”, which is just as well given that the vast majority of the reported 533 train ...