It isn’t much of a stretch to proclaim the 2-8-4 Berkshire-type steam locomotive as the “poster child” of the Super Power era ...

The Reading & Northern Railroad announced this week that T-1 class steam locomotive 2102 will lead four ‘Iron Horse Rambles’ starting in May. Built in 1945 by the Reading Company at their shops in ...

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If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

Union Pacific's legendary Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, built to conquer mountains, is making 19 whistle-stops in five states including Nevada this summer during ...

Illinois Central steam locomotive No. 790 had spent 55 years in freight service and was headed for the scrap yard in 1959 when “railfan” Lou Keller bought it and brought it to Cedar Rapids from ...

In the January 1949 issue, Popular Mechanics witnessed the end of the steam locomotive era as the American Locomotive Company, in its 100th year of operation (when combined with the history of its pre ...