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

A 100-year-old steam locomotive has found a new home at the Allentown & Auburn Railroad in Kutztown. Old No. 106, which once hauled sand and gravel at the Sturm & Dillard quarry in Ohio, arrived ...

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 ...

The 150 year-old steam locomotive nicknamed “Skunk” will be on full display at SteamRail Whanganui Inc’s open days over ...

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 ...

NEGAUNEE, Mich. (WJMN) – The Yankee was built in the 1860s and once hauled iron ore at the Jackson Mine in Negaunee. Today the 150-year old locomotive is around 60 percent intact, but soon it will be ...

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 ...

THOMASTON >> This is the machine that built America, Naugatuck Railroad president Howard Pincus said, seated in the 82-year old steam locomotive. Sadie, a charcoal-colored vintage steam engine visited ...

When KIRO Radio reported in April that an old steam locomotive that once graced Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle was for sale in Oregon, a flood of listeners responded with comments that there were plenty ...