While growing up in Cleveland and Buffalo after World War II, a close encounter with a 4-6-4 Hudson-type locomotive was just a train ride away. My first memory was as a four-year-old. My family ...

View the list of all the 2025 active steam locomotives in Trains' Feb. 2025 issue. Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 approaches Watkins, Iowa, with the Heartland of America tour on Sept. 5, 2024.

TH&B’s two Hudsons may have been new to that road, but they were 18-year-old J-1e locomotives purchased from the NYC. The agent’s prediction was accurate—the train arrived with a Hudson. On departing ...

On a cloudy overcast day, Conrail Engine 7544 pulled a line of passenger cars into Washington Court House on Saturday, June ...

The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway has unveiled a red, white, and blue locomotive to commemorate the 250th anniversary of ...

One local university is kicking off its annual camp that introduces girls to careers they might not have previously ...

Erie's seductively themed Sauce restaurant serves takeout lunch. For all those who have found themselves Sauce-curious but haven't discovered what goes on behind the doors at 2641 Myrtle St., ...

The CT273 was one of Taiwan’s fastest steam trains, capable of reaching speeds up to 100 kilometers per hour. TRA also maintains another steam locomotive, the DT668, nicknamed the "King of Locomotives ...

The world's first steam locomotive to run on a public railway will make an appearance at a three-day rail event in August at Derby train maker Alstom. Locomotion No 1, as it is aptly named, was ...

Steam trains will be able to run on the mainline during one of the busiest weeks of the year after heavy rain eased concerns about the threat of track-side fires. Network Rail lifted a steam ban ...

Tornado is a new-build A1 Pacific No. 60163 and the first mainline steam locomotive built in the UK since 1960. ... making it the first steam loco to reach such speeds since the 1960s.