The Reading & Northern Railroad plans to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary by bringing the biggest steam engine in the ...

Oroville, CA. - Union Pacific will launch its first-ever coast-to-coast steam tour this spring, led by the legendary Big Boy ...

Steam trains, 19th century railways, and majestic redwood forests are all part of America’s unique national treasure. What better way to celebrate each of them than by bringing them together in one ...

Dubbed Big Boy #4014, the Union Pacific locomotive will operate a single, one-way trip through several Pennsylvania towns ...

A historic steam locomotive built in 1912 still runs on active railway tracks in Canada, offering a rare glimpse into early ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nickel Plate Road No. 765 steam locomotive heads into the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad Fitzwater Maintenance Yard on April 24 ...

The world’s largest operating steam locomotive will roar into Utah as part of a national tour celebrating America's 250th birthday.

Steam engines are antiquated machines that most people probably can’t say they’ve ever seen run in person, much less in actual service. Tuesday morning, however, a few Pennsylvanians bore witness to a ...

HUNTINGTON -- A large crane will hoist the steam locomotive and Pullman car in front of Heritage Village on Saturday, Oct. 10, in an effort to make the Cabell-Huntington Convention and Visitors Bureau ...

running on tracks, there was the Lombard Steam Log Hauler. This wacky steam-locomotive-like contraption used tank-style tracks instead of railroad tracks to get around, freeing it up to go wherever it ...

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 ...