Steam locomotives shaped Britain’s industrial, social, and engineering legacy. Here’s a journey through the key engines that ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (KRNV) — The Great Western Steam Up brings back historic Virginia and Truckee (V&T) locomotives to the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City for the 4th of July weekend.

A caboose brings up the rear of a train. (Photo by Art Smith) A group of historical amusement park steam engines continue to work building up steam and doing what they were designed to do, haul people ...

An iconic locomotive is stationed at the Strasburg Rail Road for the summer season.The Norfolk & Western Railway Class J 611 locomotive is known as a powerhouse of steam, technology and near ...

History lessons come in all forms. Occasionally, lessons can come barreling in at more than 100 miles per hour and weighing over half a million pounds. This is the case with the Norfolk & Western ...

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In an article written in 1973 for the Great Western Echo magazine, Charles Sherrington, a former serving officer with the Railway Operating Division (the railway arm of the British Army) during the ...