Cheyenne-based Big Boy 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, will make its first ever coast-to-coast tour ...
LAKE LINDEN, MI – This 1915 locomotive sat silently for years. Now, it’s chugging back to life. The Houghton County Historical Society has restored and recertified the Calumet & Hecla Mine #3 Steam ...
Hundreds of railroad fans gathered Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Transportation to see “old 611” off on a trip to North Carolina for major repairs. But many of them, including Tom Gordon, saw it ...
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 ...
FORT WORTH, Texas — A 1.2-million-pound "Big Boy" locomotive returned Thursday to Fort Worth, delighting railfans who traveled from across the state to see the 83-year-old relic. The Union Pacific Big ...
Progress on the restoration of a more than century old steam locomotive continues here in Sioux City thanks to help from ...
The Union Pacific Railroad used to be obsessed with power. The railroad spent decades searching for and developing one locomotive to rule them all. This search resulted in icons like the Big Boy and ...
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 ...
Meet the machine that changed the course of American history! Today, we’re firing up the boiler and riding the rails through the last two centuries at The Henry Ford, exploring how a steam locomotive ...
The railway operates on tracks dating back to 1725 and 1621, making it the world's oldest. Heritage steam trains run every ...
"Old 4524" is pictured waiting patiently before its final run, as documented in the Springfield Leader & Press on Nov. 2, 1953. The last of the Frisco’s steam locomotives started one of its most ...