The beast has a number, ATSF 5000. More famously perhaps, it has a name that reflects its high status and the respect she ...

Maciej Drygas’ documentary Trains uses archival footage to depict the history of the locomotive industry in the 20th century. Using private archives, some never-before-seen footage and even ...

CARBONDALE — He started as a mule driver for the Delaware & Hudson (D&H) Canal Company, and would one day be making steam locomotives. Thomas Dickson, of Carbondale, Pa., his brothers and their father ...

LAWRENCE — 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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as the end of next year, Nashvillians could once again hear a distinct whistle that once rang through Music City as locomotive No. 576 pulled passengers and freight ...

The Northwest Railway Museum is completing a trade this week that will send a 1951 diesel engine from their collection to Nevada, and bring a 1940 locomotive from Longview to its original home in King ...

About four years ago, Keith Bass and Aaron McCreight took a trip to Southern Louisiana to buy a tractor. As any mechanically ...

HAMBURG, Pa. | From the Smithsonian to Berks County, some treasured pieces of locomotive history have found a home at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg. "Most times when we think about ...

When the locomotives met, their boilers exploded almost simultaneously, hurling metal fragments and debris high into the air.

CHEYENNE — This summer marks two huge milestones for the Cheyenne Depot: 20 years of Fridays on the Plaza and Depot Days, seasonal staples for the capital city. Like clockwork, Depot Days is here once ...

WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — A 71-year-old piece of locomotive history has pulled into Williamsville on Wednesday. The WNY Railway Historical Society lifted in this diesel locomotive. It was donated ...