The nearly century-old former Southern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive No. 2479 — along with a 122-year old roundhouse, turntable and water tower — is relocating from San Jose to Niles Station, ...

Compared to their traditional reciprocating rod-driven counterparts, geared steam locomotives can be seen as “oddballs” to the casual eye. They certainly fit that bill with their unique styles of ...

Back in September, the locomotive appeared at the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway‘s Super Power Event as a soft launch for the locomotive, where it was in light steam on display for photos.

In the Amtrak era, Michigan has not been on a sleeping-car route! This quasi-isolation is the only explanation I can offer for why David P. Morgan, longtime Trains editor and steam-locomotive ...

Two iconic locomotives will be powering into town on the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) line next month. Back for a second year, the "Legends of Steam" event, running from March 14 to 16, will greet ...

Two iconic locomotives will be powering into town on the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) line next month. Back for a second year, the "Legends of Steam" event, running from March 14 to 16 ...

The Mid Hants Railway in Hampshire, also called Watercress Line, is inviting people to be among the first passengers to be hauled by newly restored Merchant Navy Class steam locomotive Canadian ...

QUESTION: Why is George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 regarded as the first steam locomotive? What about Richard Trevithick’s Penydarren? Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 is significant because ...

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWSR) has announced the first of the locomotives to star at the railway’s flagship event, the Cotswold Festival of Steam over the late May bank ...

The wet steam, on the water issuing from the boiler, gives this minimum proportion. The apparatus to be fitted to the locomotive to admit of working counter-pressure steam as a brake, is as simple ...