The USRA was born under a unique confluence of circumstances. Prior even to American involvement in the First World War, the ...

Southern Railway chief mechanical engineer Oliver ... the early hours of Sunday morning in a re-creation of the night steam trains from the days of British Railways. Swanage Railway held the ...

On October 15 of this year, senior Southern California train fans experienced locomotive ... Back when diesels were first decimating steam locomotive rosters, we would watch internal combustion ...

Today, the real-life Polar Express is one of only two surviving Pere Marquette steam locomotives in the world. In 1957, the No. 1225 was retired and donated to Michigan State University by the ...

Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern and manufacturing giant Alstom are testing a different approach: retrofitting a pair of half-century-old locomotives ... with one train able to take some 300 to ...