Editor’s note: The video above captured Big Boy No. 4014 in Illinois during a prior visit. All-aboard: A one-million-pound ...

The historic Big Boy steam train is making rare stops in Ohio during its coast-to-coast tour for America 250. Dates, ...

A historic locomotive built for the mountainous terrain of the western United States during World War II is about to embark ...

A recent gift of a stash of old model trains provided a true N scale nostalgia trip. It’s hard to believe that N scale has ...

SPENCER— The steam locomotive is like a living thing, volunteer Lindsay Abee said as he stood near the tracks where Lehigh Valley Coal Engine No. 126 waited for its next trip. “You can feel the energy ...

Jeff Nicholls's childhood memories of his local Wolverhampton steam sheds in the 1960s paved the way for over 20 years of driving steam trains on the Polish main line, and now he has launched a book ...

Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.

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 ...