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

Big Boy No. 4014 was last in Texas in the fall of 2024, passing through Houston on Oct. 6 and through Fort Worth on Oct. 10 ...

Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.

South Devon Railway is kicking off the new year with the return of its Winter Steam Gala. The three-day event which finishes ...

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 ...

Work has been progressing over the last year to get Kamloops’ historic 2141 steam locomotive back to touring  the Thompson ...

It’s an annual tradition for The Last Word to update the restoration of a Climax-A locomotive originally built in Corry in ...

Since 2009 the LWR - which is operated entirely by volunteers - has run heritage steam trains between Ludborough and North ...

Riddle me this: what has 24 wheels, weighs more than three Jumbo Jets, and can pull five miles (eight kilometers) of cargo at seventy miles per hour full steam? That last clue should easily give it ...

The Battle of Britain class steam locomotive 34067, also known as Tangmere, was pictured at Carlisle railway station this year. This locomotive was introduced in 1945 by the Southern Railway and is ...

Here we round up the 10 fastest diesel locomotives ever.

Bicentennial America's Freedom Train locomotive restored at Baltimore museum in time for country's 250th anniversary.