The introduction of several advanced, efficient, and more robust power options over the years has largely overshadowed steam engine technology. However, it was a revolutionary technology that, upon ...

Real trains were a major mode of transportation for my parents. Many boys in my generation spent hours engaged with model trains. The next generation was mildly connected to them. More recently, ...

The first thing you might notice about the restored locomotive departing from Old Sacramento is the billowing cloud of steam pouring out of the shiny, black engine, stamped with the name Granite Rock ...

It was like Christmas morning for Maxwell Merry. His mom, Jordan, said Max was up at 5 a.m. and ready to head out to be one of the first train enthusiasts in northern Ohio to greet the Nickel Plate ...

The Norfolk & Western 611, known as the “Queen of Steam,” is back in operation, running from Victoria Station in Goshen, ...

Some people travelled long distances to view the train crossing the Skerne Bridge in Darlington, in what they described as a ...

On Sept. 27, 1825, the first steam-powered railway engine to run on a public railway — George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 — ...

Last month, Milwaukee County Zoo's North Shore Bank Safari Train got its first new engine in more than 30 years. Engine No. 2025 – a 15-inch Tier 4 diesel hydraulic locomotive built by Swanee River ...

Students in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania made history by trading in their typical big yellow school buses for a ride on a ...