The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is hitting the road—or tracks. Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 is heading out ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 steam engine embarks on its first coast-to-coast tour to celebrate America's 250th ...

The Santa Fe 2926 rolled down the tracks under its own steam power after an ambitious 20-year volunteer-run restoration. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for ...

Rail enthusiasts around the country are gearing up for a once-in-a-lifetime event as Union Pacific’s legendary steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, embarks on th ...

Longtime Louisville & Nashville Railroad employee Charles Castner died last month at the age of 97. He co-wrote a book in ...

Historic GWR steam locomotive No. 6880 Betton Grange to star at Swanage Railway’s 2026 Spring Steam Gala. Heritage railway event features seven engines.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — In its prime, a massive steam locomotive known as Big Boy No. 4014 was a moving eruption of smoke and vapor, a 6,300-horsepower brute dragging heavy freight trains over the ...

The Flying Scotsman locomotive is to return to Dorset for 10 days in the autumn. It will be based at Swanage Railway from 23 ...

In this new column called Ask Madison, Madison O’Hara, a Victoria native and Advocate reporter, answers questions readers have about anything and everything to do with the Crossroads. Email your ...

BALDWIN CITY — Steam power will reign again over the Labor Day weekend at the Midland Railway’s Railfest 2013. “A 1930-built, coal-fired steam locomotive, ‘Hank No. 75,’ will power excursion trains ...

The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...

The Pacific Locomotive Association and the Niles Canyon Railway held a special run on Saturday, May 1, with the 2-4-4-2 Columbia River Belt Line #7 steam locomotive, known as the “Skookum.” Some 40 ...