The railroading history of Nevada includes much more than the well known Virginia and Truckee and Central Pacific railroads. There have been several short-line, narrow-gauge railroads that hauled ...

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 ...

Lubbock is celebrating the engines which built America this week ...

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 ...

A donation from Metra to Railroading Heritage of Midwest America (RRHMA) is bringing a historic diesel locomotive to the museum. Metra donated the EMD F40C #11 and it will be preserved at RRHMA as ...

In affiliation with the Smithsonian Institution, the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, according to the organization's website, is "home to the General locomotive, stolen during the ...

In 1828 the Sellers of Cardington, Upper Darby, had two separate workshops. One was the “iron works.” Evidently the “iron works” shop was the site where textile manufacturing was done; for the making ...

NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) – The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS) revealed a major cosmetic change to historic steam locomotive no. 765 on Friday. In a move to honor its unique history and ...

GOLDEN, Colo. — After years of restoration, the famous Rio Grande Southern Locomotive No. 20 rolled into the Colorado Railroad Museum Tuesday. For the past 12 years, it's been undergoing restoration ...

SUNOL — Steam engines are alive, says Ronald Vale. “It sits there and it hisses at you. You hear the whine of the turbo generator. … The air pump will pump. It’s just more alive than a diesel ...

Handcar rides are one of the featured activities during the Winter Steam Festival on Dec. 28-30, 2015, at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory Summit. PROMONTORY SUMMIT — A cold, ...

Steam Into History Inc. has a new locomotive to pull its excursion trains -- a 1950s diesel that was part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The locomotive moved down the tracks recently to the station in ...