They might be outdated, but their mechanism is still mesmerizing, and there’s something nostalgic about watching and hearing a steam locomotive. It’s not something an electric motor can give you, ever ...

Historic Union Pacific locomotive is pulling a small train of cars from Wyoming across the Mississippi to Philadelphia for ...

The Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 locomotive made a stop in Altoona as thousands gathered to greet the train Tuesday and send it off Wednesday morning. The 4014 is the only operational Big Boy steam ...

The 1.2-million-pound Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 will stop across the East Coast and Midwest this summer to celebrate the ...

The world's largest operating steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, is touring the U.S. to celebrate America's 250th birthday. The historic train will make several brief stops throughout Ohio in June ...

On April 16, as India marks Railway Day, it's worth revisiting a journey that began 173 years ago with the sound of a steam engine cutting through silence. When the first train chugged from Bombay to ...

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 ...

The best train rides are not transportation, they are time machines with better scenery. High in Colorado’s old mining ...

A historic Union Pacific locomotive is traveling from Wyoming to Philadelphia for America's birthday party, and it's making stops in the Southern Tier.

Remember that train engine that used to sit in Centennial Park? It’s on its way back to the rails. The restoration process for steam engine 576 (proper name Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis 576) ...

The coal was hot. The crew were ready. On July 3rd, 1938, the 4468 Mallard, an A4-class steam locomotive, was performing an alleged brake test for its London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) owners.