Back on Jan. 1, 1947, he was working as a brakeman on CP Rail steam locomotive No. 3512. Chapman was part of a crew that was shipping the train across a section of Slocan Lake in the B.C. Interior ...

On a stretch of the Oregon Coast where pine-covered hills roll to the Pacific Ocean, an old-fashioned steam locomotive chugs along the shoreline, offering an unhurried view of the landscape. The ...

During the nuclear optimism of the 1950s, American engineers envisioned a freight train that would never need refueling: the X-12, a 200-ton atomic-powered locomotive. Designed with a compact ...