THE project to build Britain's most powerful express passenger steam locomotive has taken another step forward – with work carried out on the driver's cab. A trial fitting of the driver's cab for No.

George Hope is the great-grandson of George Dobson, one of nine people who founded the society in 1979. He visited Hopetown ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo welcomed a new diesel locomotive, Engine No. 2025, to its train fleet this summer. An inaugural ride will take place Sept. 13.

Life is full of wonderful occupational prospects when you're 6 or 7: professional Wiffle ball player or coloring-book artist, designer of Jetsons-style flying cars and, best of all, steam-locomotive ...

CHEYENNE — It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive rolled ...

The Emery Rail Heritage Trust has awarded $60,000 in grants to Friends of the 261 and the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS) to fund Positive Train Control (PTC) on two historic steam ...

If you ever manage to take a peek inside the train operator's compartment on the subway, the whole operation might strike you as kind of simple. There aren't a whole lot of controls to work with. But ...

An authentic steam locomotive will chug into downtown Des Moines this morning, pulling several century-old passenger cars that will soon be filled with kids, parents and grandparents who love old ...