These early locomotives were subject to catastrophic accidents. The Fairy Queen claims to be the oldest steam locomotive in ...

New cycle trail closely follows the original 26-mile-route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway which first carried ...

The 1873 Kansas Pacific Railway assignment took the St. Louis-based Benecke between Kansas City and Denver, taking ...

A piece of American history will be on display this weekend in downtown Los Angeles as part of a rail safety event at Union ...

The film below the break is a fascinating window into the early part of the UK’s transitional period away from steam traction, with the locomotive we know now to have been a dead-end being ...

The characteristics of DC-series shunt motors fit perfectly with freight locomotive requirements. In the early days, operators had to manually throw a transition lever, once or sometimes twice at ...

In the 1800s, people began using coal to heat their homes and power early locomotives and ships. Today, coal is primarily burned to generate electricity. When coal is burned in a furnace ...

Thousands of people across Illinois lined railroad tracks for minutes or hours waiting to catch a glimpse of Union Pacific ...

Of the 25 Big Boy locomotives commissioned by Union Pacific in 1941, only eight survive today. Union Pacific reacquired Big Boy No. 4014 in 2013 from the RailGiants Train Museum in Pomona, Calif., and ...

Railroad Corporation 2 has been forced to take a detour on the Early Access release, as we'll see it pull into the station in ...

Detroit City FC continues their Push for the Playoffs this Saturday night, traveling to Texas to face off against El Paso Locomotive FC.

Robert Benecke captured 19th-century western Kansas landscapes before massive European migrations to the area transformed ...