It hasn’t run in decades, its boiler is cold, and its steel bones are scattered in pieces across a rail yard — but for ...

Unlike traditional steam engines, the diesel engine doesn’t directly drive the wheels of the train. Instead, it generates power to drive an electric generator (or alternator).

Built at Swindon in 1934, number 5029 Nunney Castle was one of a class of locos that headed express trains on the Great ...

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 ...

The steam locomotive was a tradition in England, but the last new steam train was released in 1960 as gas and electric took over the railways. One of the idols of the steam locomotive world was ...

The Jeddo Coal No. 85 steam locomotive, also known as "Mack", will be pulling several passenger cars for rides at the Stewartstown Railroad.

This article was originally published with the title “The Use of Counter-Pressure Steam Tee Locomotive Engine as a Brake” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 21 No. 18 (October 1869), p. 277 ...

The three-ton steam engine is now remounted in the frame of Locomotive No. 9 Pictured are the Millerick brothers, Jeff and Don, who are lifelong metal workers and rail fans, and have done much of ...

In this Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, photograph, Jim Poston, a member of the Locomotive 169/Business Car B-1 Restoration Team, is shown near the 1883 steam engine on display in a park in Alamosa, Colo.

Built nearly 100 years ago, the shop had been modified over the years to suit diesel engines. Unfortunately, many of those changes just get in the way of work on the steam engine.

It’s very rare.” Richardson had seen the steam engine a few times before it crossed through Hagerstown and thinks the Class J locomotive was restored some time in the mid-2010s.

After more than a decade of work, a project to restore Locomotive No. 2100 is wrapping up, according to representatives of American Stream Railroad, the nonprofit behind the effort.