Maciej Drygas' documentary Trains uses archival footage to depict the history of the locomotive industry in the 20th century.

Jerry Jacobson was a young boy in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, living near the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, when he first fell in love with steam trains. Fast forward more than 50 years, and dozens of objects ...

CLEVELAND -- Historic murals of trains have completed their round trip in Cleveland. After years of being out on loan and then lost, the paintings, titled "History of United States Locomotives," are ...

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 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE ENERGY STORY: How These Locomotives Used Energy and What Was Done to Make Them More Efficient. By Walter Simpson. The Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society, Inc. Hardcover, 144 ...

It isn’t much of a stretch to proclaim the 2-8-4 Berkshire-type steam locomotive as the “poster child” of the Super Power era ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as the end of next year, Nashvillians could once again hear a distinct whistle that once rang through Music City as locomotive No. 576 pulled passengers and freight ...

HAMBURG, Pa. | From the Smithsonian to Berks County, some treasured pieces of locomotive history have found a home at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg. "Most times when we think about ...

The Northwest Railway Museum is completing a trade this week that will send a 1951 diesel engine from their collection to Nevada, and bring a 1940 locomotive from Longview to its original home in King ...

The old-fashioned toot of the steam whistle heralded the arrival of steam locomotive No. 8444 – one of the last operating steam locomotives – near the Expo ’74 grounds. It was hauling eight train cars ...

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, the replacement ...

North County Transit District (NCTD) donated the COASTER locomotive to the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association (PSRMA) where it will be preserved and made available for train aficionados to ...