The diesel 100 years later. From scrappy newcomer to industry standard, the story of diesel-electric locomotives starts with ...

(STAUNTON, VA) — The hills and hollows of the Shenandoah Valley will soon be hearing the “lonesome whistle blow” after long absence, thanks to Staunton’s Virginia Scenic Railway. For more than 70 ...

One day 70 years ago a Roxbury, Mass, clergyman had a large idea far removed from his pulpit. Coaching Harvard’s crew for its first race with Yale had taught Rev. Samuel Calthrop how smoothly a racing ...

In November of 1945, the Pennsylvania Railroad rolled out the T1: the first of its new class of high-speed steam locomotives. Penned by the same hand that gave us the Coke bottle, the T1 was built ...

A new railway training centre has been named after the man behind some of Britain's best-known steam locomotives. Sir Nigel ...

Bill Habjan, a retired doctor from Lebanon, Oregon, makes the 160-mile round trip to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland’s Central Eastside twice a week to work on an old engine. “When a steam ...

PEOPLE who have travelled in the new lightweight high-speed trains may have wondered why this new development has not come into wider use, and look forward to the time when most passenger trains will ...

Chuffing, hissing and moaning, steam engines are like mythic creatures — dragonlike spectacles that draw a crowd wherever they go. But in October 1956, the era of daily steam engines was ending in San ...

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