Union Pacific faced the immense challenge of hauling heavy freight trains across rugged mountain terrain, requiring locomotives with exceptional power and reliability. Unlike other railroads that ...

The Arizona Eastern Railroad has a long tradition of serving Arizona’s mining and agricultural community. It was incorporated in 1904 by the Southern ... helper steam locomotives to help ...

From the vintage Kettle Valley Steam Railway to the luxurious Rocky Mountaineer, these are the best routes to take to the ...

Norfolk & Western No. 611 to celebrate 75th birthday with update provided on the J-class 4-8-4’s repairs and maintenance.

Union Pacific’s iconic steam locomotive Big Boy No. 4014 is coming ... anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. Big Boy is scheduled to arrive in Tucson at 10 a.m ...

From the vintage Kettle Valley Steam Railway to the luxurious Rocky Mountaineer, these are the best routes to take to the ...

A Victorian brass horn, believed to have been sounded to mark the departure of the first passenger train from Swanage to Corfe Castle and Wareham in May 1885, was blown again at a 140th anniversary ...

The iconic San Gabriel backyard railroad was dubbed the “Grizzly Flats Railroad – The Scenic Wonder of The West” by Kimball – a fanciful name for a line with 900 feet of track on two acres, surrounded ...

Meeting in the middle is great in most scenarios – but a railroad bridge straddling the international border between the U.S.

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway ... is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s and 30s experiments with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4104 and the railroad’s diesel honoring Abraham Lincoln will make a round trip ...