You can’t keep a good locomotive down—especially when it has the momentum of history behind it. No matter how many times they’ve been repainted for how many purposes, retired and then rehired, ...

Deep in the jungle of trains, rails and cargo trucks at Brooklyn Rail Yard in Southeast Portland, a beast is coming to life. A 110-foot-long, 433-ton, 5,500-horsepower beast. It's the , one of the ...

For the past four decades, former Norfolk & Western and Southern Pacific locomotive engineer Doyle McCormack has coddled the most familiar steam locomotive operating in North America. Now, Chief ...

The SP 4449 was built in 1941 in Lima, Ohio and operates with a boiler pressure of 300 psi. The 4449 is the only remaining operable streamlined steam locomotive of its era, according to the Friends of ...

Vancouver’s BNSF railyard has a venerable visitor for the next few days: a working steam locomotive. The Southern Pacific 4449 arrived at midday Monday for a few days of video production work, which ...

A steam locomotive traveling from Oregon to Michigan churned into Grand Forks for a brief respite at the Amtrak depot Wednesday afternoon. "We stopped here just to grease things up, and then we'll be ...