GOSHEN, Va. – The Spirit of Roanoke makes her triumphant return. After years of waiting, the world-renowned Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 steam locomotive will kick off its 2023 fall excursions on ...

Get excited, train enthusiasts! Your chance to ride behind the beloved 611 steam locomotive is full steam ahead. The Virginia Museum of Transportation and the Virginia Scenic Railway have announced a ...

The Reading & Northern Railroad announced this week that T-1 class steam locomotive 2102 will lead four ‘Iron Horse Rambles’ starting in May. Built in 1945 by the Reading Company at their shops in ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive ...

BE A PRIVATE EVENT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 67 YEAR STEAM LOCOMOTIVE. 2926 IS MAKING TRACKS AND GOING PLACES TODAY FROM ITS HOME YARD ON EIGHTH STREET TO A PUBLIC APPEARANCE AT A BREWPUB A MILE AND A ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The restoration of a World War 2-era steam locomotive, Number 576, is forging ahead at full speed, as it finally receives its wheels back. With the support of the Nashville ...

A piece of American history will be on display this weekend in downtown Los Angeles as part of a rail safety event at Union Station. The San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society will be delivering ...

If you ever manage to take a peek inside the train operator's compartment on the subway, the whole operation might strike you as kind of simple. There aren't a whole lot of controls to work with. But ...

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 ...