Dubbed Big Boy #4014, the Union Pacific locomotive will operate a single, one-way trip through several Pennsylvania towns ...

Steam in the Valley attendees can take a ride on the 400-ton Nickel Plate Road No. 765, one of the last operating mainline steam locomotives in the country.

Earlier this year, the Milwaukee County Zoo announced that the popular zoo train's two steam locomotive engines would be retired and replaced by custom-built diesel engines. No changes have been made ...

The Reading & Northern Railroad plans to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary by bringing the biggest steam engine in the ...

The world's largest operating steam locomotive, Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014, departed Sacramento on a historic ...

Union Pacific announced several new stops for Big Boy engine #4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, as part of a transcontinental tour celebrating the nation's 250th anniversary.

Virginia's 2026 Summer of Steam features the legendary N&W Class J 611 steam train with rides from Staunton and Louisa.

The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...

The Santa Fe 2926 rolled down the tracks under its own steam power after an ambitious 20-year volunteer-run restoration. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for ...

Riddle me this: what has 24 wheels, weighs more than three Jumbo Jets, and can pull five miles (eight kilometers) of cargo at seventy miles per hour full steam? That last clue should easily give it ...

Norfolk & Western J-Class 4-8-4 No. 611 will operate a series of excursions in June in July on the Virginia Scenic Railway, ...

With uncertainty clouding overseas holidays, Britain’s heritage railway and excursion operators will be hoping for a bumper ...