Historic Union Pacific locomotive is pulling a small train of cars from Wyoming across the Mississippi to Philadelphia for ...

A view of the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad. The Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad is a historic sightseeing railroad that runs ...

The 0-8-0 was a United States Railway Administration (USRA) designated class locomotive developed during World War I. The USRA 0-8-0 was built as a heavy, low-speed switcher, for use in a variety of ...

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, ...

Nickel Plate Road Number 765 is one of the last operating Berkshire-type steam locomotives in the country.

If you’ve ever wanted to own your own 105-ton steam locomotive — or perhaps a “bay window” caboose, a wooden-sided box car or a Canadian National coach car — then your time to do so may be nigh. These ...

The world's largest steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, is rolling through New York. See where to watch it.

Setting off on a Sunday morning adventure to see 100 steam engines at the Stoke Row Steam Rally I raised an eyebrow to see ...

When the Kinks' Ray Davies penned the tune "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains," the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at the ...

In the January 1949 issue, Popular Mechanics witnessed the end of the steam locomotive era as the American Locomotive Company, in its 100th year of operation (when combined with the history of its pre ...