You might think that a coal-burning locomotive built in 1937 had nothing left to offer the modern rail industry, short of being a nice museum piece. In the case of Locomotive 3463, however, that ...

The Coalition for Sustainable Rail (CSR) has announced plans to create the world’s first carbon-neutral high-speed locomotive. Working with the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment ...

SPENCER — An iconic steam passenger engine built in 1950 is headed to Spencer for a complete restoration that should put the Norfolk & Western Class J 611 locomotive back on the rails, blowing her ...

I have to admit, I personally am not all that into trains. I mean, I like them, I understand their usefulness and how they've contributed to the creation of the modern-day society, and I have traveled ...

Few locomotives in this world could make the Norfolk and Western 1218 take a back seat at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. The Chesapeake and Ohio 614 is one of them. The 434-ton steam ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them that ...