Dick Christianson, the founding editor of Classic Toy Trains and the consummate cheerleader for Lionel trains of the postwar era, was recently asked about his top locomotive. He’s owned several great ...

The apparatus to be fitted to the locomotive to admit of working counter-pressure steam as a brake ... also two branches ; one going to the under side of each branch of the exhaust pipe.

It had three cylinders of different sizes, with the middle one being larger than the two on either side. The outer cylinders ... used in locomotives. The locomotive steam engine can be traced ...

Volunteers from the Gladstone Michigan Soo Line 730 Steam Engine Authority and the Siblings of the Soo Line lit the train up ...

However, as exhilarating as a long walk, cycle, or run can be, there's no better way to take in the beauty of fall foliage ...

The Maunsell Locomotive Society has issued an update on the project to overhau1 Q Class 0-6-0 No.541. At the Leaky Finders ...

It’s not really a dinosaur, but the Union Pacific No. 4014 Big Boy steam locomotive that rumbled and hissed to a stop at Union Station to the delight of hundreds of train enthusiasts who ...

On the evening of Nov. 10, 1929, just southeast of what is now the Santa Clarita Metrolink station, a daring and dramatic ...

There may have been a point, somewhere back in the middle of the last century, where the train seemed to have lost the remainder of whatever swagger it once had. The aircraft had entered stage-left as ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is in Kansas City, Missouri. Union Pacific’s No. 4014, aka “Big Boy,” arrived at Union Station Tuesday evening and ...

Relive the Golden Age of railway travel on the best and most iconic historic routes that still run today, from the Orient ...

With an expert tutor by your side, you’ll learn the basics of train travel and take control of a real steam engine on a trip through rural Nottinghamshire. The journey will include a tunnel ...