There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few ...

The decades-long effort to advance the design and technology of steam locomotives constantly circled back to the idea of ...

Which is faster—the steam or electric locomotive? On the face of the latest returns, the “juice” seems to have it. At Erie, Pa., last week a speed of 105 miles an hour was attained over a ...

The group doing the work is called Corry Rails. A couple of members found the old Climax-A locomotive in Alaska in the year ...