Illinois Central steam locomotive No. 790 had spent 55 years in freight service and was headed for the scrap yard in 1959 when “railfan” Lou Keller bought it and brought it to Cedar Rapids from ...

COOPERSVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — An 111-year-old steam locomotive has been cosmetically restored and will now be on display in Coopersville. The Coopersville and Marne Railway on Wednesday dedicated the ...

BURNS HARBOR | After nearly 50 years of hard labor at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s plants in Pennsylvania and Burns Harbor, battered old locomotive No. 72 was parked because it wasn't serviceable. But ...

A Gloucester County community has come together to restore an 80-year-old locomotive. Locomotive No. 9 was used for 40 years before it was abandoned in the woods for another several decades, left to ...

Chicago has depended on its trusty elevated rail system for well more than a century. Every day, some 400,000 riders board ...

Communities near railyards, ports and other freight corridors have long been hit hard by air pollution from dirty, old locomotives. These massive, track-mounted vehicles, which use a diesel generator ...

Amtrak is retiring the AEM-7 electric locomotives that have carried passengers along the Northeast Corridor for 37 years. The trains have traveled more than 220 million miles between Washington, D.C., ...

Two locomotives on the Capitol Corridor passenger rail service will soon be replaced by modern ones that are cleaner and more fuel-efficient. The sleeker locomotives -- U.S.-made by Siemens -- promise ...

When it comes to improving efficiency and reducing emissions in transportation, often the answer is to take what’s old and replace it with something entirely new, such as buying an electric vehicle.