The Piney Woods region is already one of the state’s best-kept secrets, and viewing it from a vintage train car takes it to ...

Florida train company Brightline unveiled a new train celebrating America's 250th anniversary. The Freedom Express portrays moments from 1776 to the Apollo moon landing.

The Mid- Suffolk Light Railway has lots of locomotives moving around this year, with a wide variety to be spotted running ...

The Redwood Valley Railway and East Bay Regional Park District may be getting closer to an agreement about the Tilden steam train contract.

There are train rides, and then there are train rides that end with you going inside a mountain like some kind of coal-powered hobbit. Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine & Steam Train in Ashland, Pennsylvania ...

GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- A steam locomotive built 123 years ago is about to get a $1.3 million life-boosting rebuild. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has awarded the grant funds to the Genesee County ...

It was the 1950s, a transitional postwar era when road transportation was still picking up pace, and railways did the heavy lifting. Steam engines were on the way out as diesel locomotives gained a ...

OGDEN — The world's largest steam engine is coming back to Utah in the spring. Union Pacific unveiled the first few dates of its ambitious transcontinental tour of Big Boy No. 4014 last week, ...

(NEXSTAR) — The ground rumbles. A billowing cloud of steam forms in the sky. Then suddenly, the 1.2 million-pound locomotive known as Big Boy No. 4014 is pulling into a station near you. It won’t be ...

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Jim Duncan, a retired city planner, has written more than 600 short histories of Austin businesses. The American-Statesman introduced Duncan and his series, “Jim Duncan’s Austin,” on July 6. This week ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) – Union Pacific announced this week that historic locomotive 'Big Boy' will make history on its first-ever coast-to-coast tour this year in honor of America's 250th birthday. The ...