Steam in the Valley attendees can take a ride on the 400-ton Nickel Plate Road No. 765, one of the last operating mainline ...

British startup Steamology has secured a contract to test its hydrogen-fueled steam traction system in a converted Freightliner Group (a Genesee & Wyoming subsidiary) freight locomotive. Funded ...

Weighing 1.1 million pounds and stretching 133 feet long, Union Pacific’s famed “Big Boy” steam locomotive is set to arrive ...

More news about the planned Big Boy 4014 excursion planned for June. FOX56 has been following this story for weeks and have ...

The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...

A 1930 steam engine called The Empress pulled into downtown Franklin Park Wednesday – taking a break from its trek along the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroad line on its trip from Calgary, Canada ...

With Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4014 running coast-to-coast in celebration of America 250 — and coming east for the ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 steam engine embarks on its first coast-to-coast tour to celebrate America's 250th anniversary.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A piece of American history will be on ...

Few things resonate sweeter than a solid father-son relationship. That’s especially true when sons proudly follow in their father’s footsteps. For locomotive engineer Robert Burkhardt, that ...