Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...

Vietnam has restored to old steam trains featuring "retro-style" carriages reminicent of an Orient Express-style set from the "Poirot" detective stories. (archive photo) Sebastian Willnow/dpa Recent ...

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 ...

After more than five years of restoration, a 110-year-old steam locomotive will traverse the tracks between Duluth and Two Harbors this summer with the North Shore Scenic Railroad. "It's exciting to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Conway Scenic Railroad’s “winter steam” event, held over the weekend in Conway, New Hampshire, took passengers for a ride back in time on a 100-year-old steam engine locomotive. Patrons took a ...

HUNTINGDON COUNTY, JUST WEST OF THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, MAKING SOME HISTORY TODAY. INSTEAD OF BOARDING THE BIG YELLOW BUS, THEY GOT ON A STEAM LOCOMOTIVE BUILT MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO. NOW THAT’S THE ...

Hundreds of Kansans greet the world's largest steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, on Oct. 17, 2024, in North Topeka. (Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — The train named Big Boy was late.