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 ...

Forget the portrait of the sweating steam locomotive engineer operating his smoke-belching steed across the great Southwestern desert with superheated air blasting his face. In the latest move to ...

Robert Rodriguez, a steam locomotive engineer with the Disneyland Railroad, sits inside the cab on the fireman’s side of Engine #2 of the line, the E.P. Ripley.

Ed Dickens Jr., manager and senior engineer for the Union Pacific "Big Boy" steam locomotive, sits in the control cab during a stop in Columbus on Sunday. JEFF FORWARD, Fremont Tribune ...

Five-year-old Stephen Breckenridge of Mount Vernon marches along as he gets a look Wednesday at Steam Locomotive No. 844, the last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific Railroad. It was ...

Steam locomotives always had that smell around them, especially in rainy and snowy weather, not an unpleasant smell. … I wish I could smell it again.” ...

Ed Dickens, Union Pacific Railroad Chief Steam Locomotive Engineer drove the rumbling, ground-shaking Big Boy into Ogden Wednesday: You can feel it in your hands, you can feel it in your teeth.

Dan Wolf has a score to settle. Among Southern California railroad veterans, word is circulating that a local resident there is the oldest living steam locomotive engineer. Wolf politely–make ...

Plain Township brothers Maxwell Merry, 11; Theo Merry, 6; and Kai Merry 7, take a photo with Nickel Plate Road No. 765 steam locomotive engineer Mark Tobin at the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad ...

But on some locomotives, engineers say, the silica sand is getting inside. The problem: breathing in tiny particles of that silica sand can be dangerous.

The union for Amtrak's locomotive engineers urged the railroad on Tuesday to put a second crew member at the controls of trains on the busy Northeast Corridor, where a derailment killed eight ...

Carmen George Tribune News Service Writer Sep 24, 2016 Sep 24, 2016 0 1 of 4 Longtime locomotive engineer Jack Elwood sits among model trains, photographs and other memorabilia in his 'train room ...