In the January 1949 issue, Popular Mechanics witnessed the end of the steam locomotive era as the American Locomotive Company, in its 100th year of operation (when combined with the history of its pre ...

LAWRENCE — When the Kinks’ Ray Davies penned the tune “Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,” the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at ...

CARBONDALE — He started as a mule driver for the Delaware & Hudson (D&H) Canal Company, and would one day be making steam locomotives. Thomas Dickson, of Carbondale, Pa., his brothers and their father ...

The life of a locomotive is often one without much fanfare. Countless locomotives dutifully serve their railroads, only to see themselves tossed to the scrapyard once their useful lives end. Even rare ...

Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, has been attracting record crowds across ...

Caerphilly Castle was designed and built by the Great Western Railway at Swindon. It was built in 1923 and was the prototype of the Castle Class - a now iconic class of locomotive. Built in the heyday ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, is drawing crowds as it makes its first East Coast tour ahead of America's 250th birthday.

WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — A 71-year-old piece of locomotive history has pulled into Williamsville on Wednesday. The WNY Railway Historical Society lifted in this diesel locomotive. It was donated ...

On a warm September day in 1896, a quiet field about 15 miles north of Waco became the epicenter of one of the most unusual and tragic spectacles in Texas history: the Crash at Crush, a staged head-on ...

When the Kinks' Ray Davies penned the tune "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains," the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at the ...