The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is hitting the road—or tracks. Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 is heading out ...

The Grand Canyon Railway has been running to Grand Canyon National Park since 1901. The journey lives on, only this year, with added perks.

NS’s modernization roadmap includes new locomotives, a DC-to-AC program and a “push to reduce engine models from 13 to four over the next decade,” the Class I noted. Fewer models mean “lower ...

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway has announced that CR 439 Class No. 419 will be visiting them for their ...

ATLANTA — Norfolk Southern will continue to modernize its locomotive fleet in a deal announced on Monday with Progress Rail, which will convert 96 of the railroad’s SD70M-2 models to AC-traction ...

LNER A1 No. 60163 Tornado will be joining A3 No. 60103 Flying Scotsman at the Great Central Railway in Nottingham this May. Both locomotives will arrive via the Midland Main Line connection in Mid-May ...

Class 50 and Class 40 borrowed from Locomotive Services Ltd for senior staff to examine sites in Somerset and Devon.

GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- A steam locomotive built 123 years ago is about to get a $1.3 million life-boosting rebuild. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has awarded the grant funds to the Genesee County ...

It was the 1950s, a transitional postwar era when road transportation was still picking up pace, and railways did the heavy lifting. Steam engines were on the way out as diesel locomotives gained a ...

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with an additional date for the Ogden, Utah, stop initially omitted by Union Pacific. (NEXSTAR) – The wait is over, sort of. Union Pacific has announced the ...

(NEXSTAR) — The ground rumbles. A billowing cloud of steam forms in the sky. Then suddenly, the 1.2 million-pound locomotive known as Big Boy No. 4014 is pulling into a station near you. It won’t be ...

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