The Fort Wayne Railroad and Norfolk Southern are supporting the efforts to restore the Mohawk through a tedious process ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nickel Plate Road #765 steam locomotive heads into the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad Fitzwater Maintenance Yard on April 24, ...

SPENCER, N.C. — On a typically sweltering summer morning, the “America 250 Locomotive Celebration” opened today (Friday, Aug. 28) on the grounds of the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer.

NCDOT's Piedmont engine returned from a months-long overhaul with a new number and a new America semiquincentennial livery.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watertown, a town in Wilson County of about 1,550 residents as of the 2020 census, experiences a tourism boon 16-18 Saturdays per ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo welcomed a new diesel engine to its train fleet. An inaugural ride for Engine No. 2025 is open to the public on Saturday, Sept. 13. The long-running steam locomotives, a ...

Last month, Milwaukee County Zoo's North Shore Bank Safari Train got its first new engine in more than 30 years. Engine No. 2025 – a 15-inch Tier 4 diesel hydraulic locomotive built by Swanee River ...

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 the ...

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 ...

The coal was hot. The crew were ready. On July 3rd, 1938, the 4468 Mallard, an A4-class steam locomotive, was performing an alleged brake test for its London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) owners.

Rail technology company Wabtec has demonstrated an electric locomotive that could help lessen the environmental footprint of heavy-haul freight services. The company's battery-powered FLXdrive ...