Any big passenger or freight train engine is a marvel, a creature of metal, capable of pulling tremendous weight and traveling untired for miles. But there's something dreamy about a steam ...

British startup Steamology has secured a contract to test its hydrogen-fueled steam traction system in a converted Freightliner Group (a Genesee & Wyoming subsidiary) freight locomotive. Funded ...

The fact it’s technically a steam locomotive is incidental. BR Class 60: Tutenkhamun Sleeping, CC BY 2.0.

Of the thousands of steam engines that were manufactured, few were designed to provide the raw power these behemoths of engineering used to push and pull.

Illinois Central steam locomotive No. 790 had spent 55 years in freight service and was headed for the scrap yard in 1959 when “railfan” Lou Keller bought it and brought it to Cedar Rapids ...

World’s largest steam engine ‘Big Boy’ stops in Big Sandyrough Friday. “Here we go again,” said Lisa Baggett, Big Sandy’s mayor after another train passed through the city. Railroads are a big part of ...

The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive, which hauled freight between Wyoming and Utah in the 1940s and 1950s, is back on the track and headed for multiple stops in Colorado.