Elizabeth Tucker produces digital content for the Albuquerque Journal including lists, web features and breaking news.

The Mid-Continent Railway Museum, after nearly 30 years of work, has completed a successful test firing of former Chicago & North Western R1 4-6-0 No. 1385. The locomotive now moves into the final ...

TOWN OF SPRINGFIELD, Wis.—Steve Roudebush and Bruce Grill are craftsman, only metal is their specialty, not wood. The longtime friends and business partners who met while working at Webcrafters in ...

SPRINGFIELD, Wis. (AP) - The American Locomotive Co. was once one of the largest builders of steam engines in the world. In 1907, six years after the New York company was formed by a merger of the ...

The Virginia General Assembly named the N&W Class J611 the official steam locomotive of Virginia. The resolution will be presented in the boarding area of the 611 at the O. Winston Link Museum in ...

BE A PRIVATE EVENT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 67 YEAR STEAM LOCOMOTIVE. 2926 IS MAKING TRACKS AND GOING PLACES TODAY FROM ITS HOME YARD ON EIGHTH STREET TO A PUBLIC APPEARANCE AT A BREWPUB A MILE AND A ...

Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. said it ordered 35 locomotives from the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corp. for $45.5 million. The fuel-efficient, SD-50 model locomotives will ...

The loud choo choo and clanging of Santa Fe steam locomotive 2926 filled the air as it pulled in at Tractor Brewing Company on Fourth Street in Albuquerque on Saturday morning. Children excitedly blew ...

(STAUNTON, VA) — The hills and hollows of the Shenandoah Valley will soon be hearing the “lonesome whistle blow” after long absence, thanks to Staunton’s Virginia Scenic Railway. For more than 70 ...

The 2-8-4 Berkshire-type steam locomotive helped open the advancement in Super Power steam technology through size, speed, ...

As part of the Transcontinental Railroad’s 150th anniversary, the Union Pacific Big Boy Steam Locomotive will stop in Topeka. No. 4014 is the world’s only operating Big Boy Locomotive. It drew crowds ...