STAUNTON — The cranes raised them up onto railway cars that will transport them back home. For years, steam locomotives 1238 and 1286 lived at C&O Flats on the western edge of downtown Staunton. They ...

The oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada is off the tracks as it waits for a new set of tubes to be installed on its boiler. The locomotive is halted in a repair shop at the Prairie Dog Central ...

LECLAIRE, Iowa (KWQC) - The Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railroad’s Empress 2816 made its way through the Quad Cities once again on it’s way to it’s final destination in Wennipeg Canada. Back in May, ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...

The Empress is making its way across three countries in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the completion of a railway that runs from Canada to Mexico. On Sunday, it stopped in Moose Jaw, Sask ...

If you’re used to watching freight trains click by in Western Canada, a hydrogen fuel cell locomotive wouldn’t immediately stand out. It looks the same. It moves the same. It’s still steel wheels on ...

Heritage Park officials, Premier Danielle Smith and other members of the Alberta government cut the ribbon and boarded the ...

The U.S. and Canadian governments plan to work together to reduce the railway sector’s greenhouse gas emissions via a task force that will explore accelerating the use of zero-emissions locomotive ...

Steam turbine-powered locomotives never really caught on. Similar to gas turbine engines, steam turbines are efficient at certain rpm, and extremely inefficient at many others. At high speeds, they ...