They might be outdated, but their mechanism is still mesmerizing, and there’s something nostalgic about watching and hearing a steam locomotive. It’s not something an electric motor can give you, ever ...

To commemorate American innovation in this semiquincentennial year, the Virginia Scenic Railway has fired up a “Summer of ...

Historic Union Pacific locomotive is pulling a small train of cars from Wyoming across the Mississippi to Philadelphia for America's birthday party.

Union Pacific's Big Boy, the largest operating steam locomotive will be stopping in Iowa towns as part of a historic coast-to ...

The first thing you might notice about the restored locomotive departing from Old Sacramento is the billowing cloud of steam pouring out of the shiny, black engine, stamped with the name Granite Rock ...

The 1.2-million-pound Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 will stop across the East Coast and Midwest this summer to celebrate the U.S. semiquincentennial.

On April 16, as India marks Railway Day, it's worth revisiting a journey that began 173 years ago with the sound of a steam engine cutting through silence. When the first train chugged from Bombay to ...

Remember that train engine that used to sit in Centennial Park? It’s on its way back to the rails. The restoration process for steam engine 576 (proper name Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis 576) ...