About four years ago, Keith Bass and Aaron McCreight took a trip to Southern Louisiana to buy a tractor. As any mechanically ...

Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...

It hasn’t run in decades, its boiler is cold, and its steel bones are scattered in pieces across a rail yard — but for $50,000, the dream of breathing life into a century-old steam locomotive, and ...

OGDEN — A legendary locomotive made its return to Ogden this weekend. Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 made a weekend stop that drew thousands of visitors of all ages to Union Station from its arrival ...

Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.

A 1930 steam engine called The Empress pulled into downtown Franklin Park Wednesday – taking a break from its trek along the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroad line on its trip from Calgary, Canada ...

BE A PRIVATE EVENT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 67 YEAR STEAM LOCOMOTIVE. 2926 IS MAKING TRACKS AND GOING PLACES TODAY FROM ITS HOME YARD ON EIGHTH STREET TO A PUBLIC APPEARANCE AT A BREWPUB A MILE AND A ...

A piece of American history will be on display this weekend in downtown Los Angeles as part of a rail safety event at Union Station. The San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society will be delivering ...

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 ...

They might be outdated, but their mechanism is still mesmerizing, and there’s something nostalgic about watching and hearing a steam locomotive.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 ...