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

ELY, Nev. (KTNV) — In one Nevada community, the history of the American railway is kept alive and well. "Our trains are 100 and 150 years old, and that's what we run. We have people who will reserve ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the fire departments arrived, the building was already around 90 percent involved. There are many chemicals inside the structure due to the nature of the business. Fire officials say that there ...

Over the last several years, a group of people have been trying to bring a part of that robust history back to life. The group is the Texas Railway Preservation Association (TRPA), and its existence ...

It isn't much of a stretch to proclaim the 2-8-4 Berkshire-type steam locomotive as the "poster child" of the Super Power era of steam locomotives. "Berkshire," "Kanawha," "Big Emma" - regardless of ...

OVER the last 12 months, the West Somerset Railway welcomed a wide range of historic steam locomotives. As has been the case ...

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