SPENCER— The steam locomotive is like a living thing, volunteer Lindsay Abee said as he stood near the tracks where Lehigh Valley Coal Engine No. 126 waited for its next trip. “You can feel the energy ...

BOW — For years Diz Schimke has operated his own half-scale railway in his backyard to fulfill his childhood dream and to benefit the Alger food bank. This year he is trying to get his plans back on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CHEYENNE — It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Jenny Brundin, Colorado Public Radio CHAMA, N.M. — In the thick of swirling plumes of coal-fired smoke and greasy engine parts, 11 men, mostly middle-aged ...

Jeff Nicholls's childhood memories of his local Wolverhampton steam sheds in the 1960s paved the way for over 20 years of driving steam trains on the Polish main line, and now he has launched a book ...

running on tracks, there was the Lombard Steam Log Hauler. This wacky steam-locomotive-like contraption used tank-style tracks instead of railroad tracks to get around, freeing it up to go wherever it ...

Severn Valley Railway is offering the chance to take control of the LMS Jubilee class locomotive No 45596 'Bahamas' train when it visits the site for the annual Autumn Steam Gala. The special ...

A heritage railway in the Lake District is giving visitors the chance to take the controls of a steam locomotive. The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway will launch its ‘Railway Engine Driver Experiences’ ...

Meet the machine that changed the course of American history! Today, we’re firing up the boiler and riding the rails through the last two centuries at The Henry Ford, exploring how a steam locomotive ...

The Union Pacific Railroad is restoring one of its last remaining steam engines, one of the largest in the world, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, ...