Add all those factors together and it’s kind of surprising that locomotive fires are not more common than they are. The internet has all sorts of photos/videos of locomotives on fire, mostly taken ...

Amid the considerable amount of discussion which has been aroused by the recent report upon the American locomotives on the Midland Railroad, the best statement has come from the pen of Mr ...

Big Boy is coming to North Texas. The world's largest operating steam locomotive - Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 - will roll into and through Dallas and Fort Worth in the coming weeks ...

Union Pacific Railroad has released the full tour stop schedule for its record-breaking steam-powered locomotive this summer and fall. The Heartland of America Tour will feature Big Boy No. 4014 ...

DE SOTO, Mo. — The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is expected to make a stop in De Soto on Thursday, Sept. 12. Union Pacific Railroad announced that its famed Big Boy No. 4014 ...

The term "Train" is often used incorrectly. Train is the collective term for the coaches or wagons being pulled by a locomotive or for the combined ensemble of locomotive and carriages / wagons. The ...

Arup and Eversholt Rail have awarded British start-up Steamology a contract to convert a diesel locomotive to emission-free traction. BRITISH start-up Steamology has secured a contract to test its ...

Modern technology and traditional methods were combined to build the locomotive A new steam locomotive has been launched in Sussex. The Bluebell Railway has welcomed the LB&SCR Marsh Brighton ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, is once again returning to Arkansas as part of the "Heartland of America Tour." ...

Three rare model locomotives have sold for thousands at auction. The Fine Scale O Gauge models, made by James Stanley Beeson, went for £25,000 - nearly four times the total estimate. A LNWR ...

There are not a lot of places in the world where you can be hiking through a remote wilderness and suddenly stumble upon rusting locomotives. One of the things that makes the Allagash so fascinating ...

Born on May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman is the author of Leaves of Grass and, along with Emily Dickinson, is considered one of the architects of a uniquely American poetic voice. I believe in you my soul, ...