Two Victorian steam locomotives have been given a permanent home at a heritage railway in the north-east of England. Twizell, ...

Locomotives have a fascinating history. They were one of the first methods to mass transport goods from one place to another, and while the first railroads used horses to pull carts along the tracks, ...

BUTLER -- A piece of history rolled the rails through southeast Wisconsin on Thursday, July 25 -- the world's largest and oldest steam locomotive -- Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014. The steam ...

Crowds watch the arrival of Union Pacific's historic Big Boy steam locomotive No. 4014 at the old Union Pacific depot in North Lawrence, Tuesday morning, Nov. 19, 2019. The Union Pacific’s historic ...

Illinois Central steam locomotive No. 790 had spent 55 years in freight service and was headed for the scrap yard in 1959 when “railfan” Lou Keller bought it and brought it to Cedar Rapids from ...

A 150-year-old piece of Michigan’s industrial past is poised to glide into the future thanks to a major gift, state officials said. The Michigan Iron Industry Museum in the Upper Peninsula recently ...

A portion of the Lucey Boiler Co. property on South Holtzclaw Avenue in downtown Chattanooga is the new site for the historic restoration of a 102-year-old steam locomotive from Florida. For the ...

Union Depot will be receiving a historic visitor on Friday, as the 94-year-old steam locomotive the Canadian Pacific Kansas City 2816 Empress is visiting the Twin Cities for the first time since 2004.

Bohall is one of two dozen volunteers helping restore a 1930 Temple Lumber Company steam engine locomotive.

A cool mist hung low over the Shenandoah Valley on Friday morning as visitors from across the country came to witness a ...

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 ...

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 ...