It hasn’t run in decades, its boiler is cold, and its steel bones are scattered in pieces across a rail yard — but for $50,000, the dream of breathing life into a century-old steam locomotive, and ...

The Union Pacific locomotive known as “Big Boy” returns to Green Country for the first time since 2021 as part of its Heartland of America Tour, with stops in Muskogee at 11 a.m., Wagoner at noon for ...

The only operating example in the world of the largest steam locomotive ever built thundered her way, in May 2019, from Union Pacific’s Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyo., to Ogden, Utah, to take part in ...

Dubbed a 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive because of its wheel arrangement, the locomotive is on a tour to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad. Weighing in at nearly 550 tons, the ...

Unfortunately, the Baldwin did exactly that, running out of coal in Independence. Blanchard had to fetch 10 buckets full from the railroad's stockpile, so owner Scott Symans, of Dunkirk, N.Y., could ...

Union Pacific Railroad has released the full tour stop schedule for its record-breaking steam-powered locomotive this summer and fall. The Heartland of America Tour will feature Big Boy No. 4014 ...

The relocation of the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railway steam engine displayed near 14th Street West has begun as the coal ...

APPALACHIA — People in Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee see the occasional coal/freight train but very few passenger trains on the region’s rail lines.

In the waning months of World War I, the USRA worked to develop a locomotive that would provide mixed service to railroads across the country. The 4-8-2 Light Mountain, with its longer wheelbase and ...