SPRINGFIELD, Wis. (AP) - The American Locomotive Co. was once one of the largest builders of steam engines in the world. In 1907, six years after the New York company was formed by a merger of the ...

Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...

It’s an annual tradition for The Last Word to update the restoration of a Climax-A locomotive originally built in Corry in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A storied veteran will soon come out of retirement to again scale mountains in southwest Colorado. The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s Locomotive ...

GENESEE TWP, MI -- Genesee County Parks and Recreation Commission officials are preparing to complete the assessment of Steam Locomotive #464 for a rebuild to continue to provide rides for years to ...

It was a big day on Sunday, July 31st, 2022, for the Lake Superior Museum, said the Executive Director of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. “For the first time since 2019, our number 332 steam ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Steamtown National Historic Site will soon be steam-less no more. In the historic site’s ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them that ...