Suzie Biggs spent her Saturday evening outside, struggling to stay warm near the railroad tracks on Cooley Road. After more than three hours, the Southern Pacific 4449 roared by Biggs in a matter of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...