Forget the portrait of the sweating steam locomotive engineer operating his smoke-belching steed across the great Southwestern desert with superheated air blasting his face. In the latest move to make ...

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.

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 ...

The long-running steam locomotives, a visitor favorite, took their final lap last year. Here's how to be a part of Engine No.

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 ...

Illinois Central steam locomotive No. 790 had spent 55 years in freight service and was headed for the scrap yard in 1959 when “railfan” Lou Keller bought it and brought it to Cedar Rapids from ...