News Watch the Retired ‘Big Boy’ Steam Train Rescue a Stalled Freight Train in Nebraska Once one of the heaviest steam locomotives in the world, the Big Boy 4014 recently stumbled into a mission.

British startup Steamology has secured a contract to test its hydrogen-fueled steam traction system in a converted Freightliner Group (a Genesee & Wyoming subsidiary) freight locomotive. Funded ...

The Settle-Carlisle line is set to mark a major milestone with a special steam journey. The historic railway line will be celebrating 150 years since its first freight train ran on August 2, 1875.

On 19 August, two steam engine drivers from the Severn Valley Railway (SVR) will be swapping their usual 70 tonne modes of ...

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) is set to welcome the steam 'legend' Tornado for future services, it has been ...

Instead, this is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s and 30s experiments with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific’s oil-fired condensing turbo-electrics.