Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...

Since 2009 the LWR - which is operated entirely by volunteers - has run heritage steam trains between Ludborough and North ...

Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.

Work has been progressing over the last year to get Kamloops’ historic 2141 steam locomotive back to touring  the Thompson ...

Here we round up the 10 fastest diesel locomotives ever.

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten ...

The historic Southern Pacific Engine 1238, which has been in Roeding Park since 1956, was moved to Kingsburg on Monday to be ...

A 3,000-ton locomotive was careening down the tracks with no crew on board. Authorities tried—and failed—to stop it. Then one ...

An ambitious campaign to extend a popular heritage steam railway to Louth has been given a significant fillip.

Through the Sygnets, Matt’s interest in the railway quickly grew. By the age of 16 he was acting as a fireman on the engines, before training as a driver. Matt then did an apprenticeship with South ...

The B&O Railroad Museum on Jan. 12 unveiled the restored American Freedom Train No. 1 (AFT No. 1) in honor of the 250th ...