FORT WORTH, Texas — A 1.2-million-pound "Big Boy" locomotive returned Thursday to Fort Worth, delighting railfans who traveled from across the state to see the 83-year-old relic. The Union Pacific Big ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a 1954 view from the running board of Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 Berkshire-type No. 703, standing in the siding at New Douglas, ...

PHOENIX — The Grand Canyon Railway resumes operations this weekend, offering departures every first Saturday of the month through October. Steam-powered journeys will take place on April 23 for Earth ...

Riddle me this: what has 24 wheels, weighs more than three Jumbo Jets, and can pull five miles (eight kilometers) of cargo at seventy miles per hour full steam? That last clue should easily give it ...

A caboose brings up the rear of a train. (Photo by Art Smith) A group of historical amusement park steam engines continue to work building up steam and doing what they were designed to do, haul people ...

Nearly 10 years after the announcement to restore NC&STL No. 576, the Nashville Steam Preservation Society is closing in on the first fireup.

SEVERAL historic steam locomotives will be passing through Kemble, Stroud and Stonehouse between now and the end of the year as part of nationally operated rail tours ...

Established on February 15, 1926, the station, once a key hub of the city’s narrow and metre-gauge network, has completed a century of service. The Lucknow division of the North Eastern Railway (NER) ...