ALAMOSA, Colo. — Engine 169 is “the little engine that could.” Ruth Heide, Valley Courier via AP In this Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, photograph, Jim Poston, a member of the Locomotive 169/Business Car B-1 ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive ...

If you ever manage to take a peek inside the train operator's compartment on the subway, the whole operation might strike you as kind of simple. There aren't a whole lot of controls to work with. But ...

Steam has returned to the Stewartstown Railroad for the first time in 83 years, giving a young trainman an opportunity to experience and learn how his ancestors mastered transportation without ...

Being pulled by another train, the Norfolk & Western 611 steam locomotive sped past onlookers Thursday on its way to the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke. The steam engine, built in 1950, ...

A steam locomotive at Knott’s Berry Farm has been reborn, a birthing that took seven years. Engine No. 340, the “Green River,” is one of two engines owned by the farm. It and sister engine No. 41 were ...

West Somerset Railway’s Autumn Steam Weekend (17–19 Oct) showcases rare fireless locomotive Boots Number 1, historic engines, ...

A restored replica of Locomotion No 1 will return to the birthplace of railways to recreate its first famous journey. Tens of thousands of people lined the route on 27 September 1825 to witness ...

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 ...