Most Saturday mornings, about a dozen volunteers gather at Ochsner Hospital's rail yard off Jefferson Highway to maintain Southern Pacific Engine 745 -- the last remaining steam locomotive that was ...

Over the last several years, a group of people have been trying to bring a part of that robust history back to life. The group is the Texas Railway Preservation Association (TRPA), and its existence ...

Trains were once the lifeline in America, and for decades, the steam engine was the heart and soul. A new chapter is now being written in the story of one of those locomotives, Southern Pacific engine ...

Chuffing, hissing and moaning, steam engines are like mythic creatures — dragonlike spectacles that draw a crowd wherever they go. But in October 1956, the era of daily steam engines was ending in San ...

"The major portion of this book comes from a periodical of the former Baldwin Locomotive Works ... Baldwin locomotives." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac ...

Trains were once the lifeline in America, and the steam engine was the heart and soul. One of those steamers, the 1919 Southern Pacific engine No. 2852, is one display at the Glenn County Fairgrounds ...

On Saturday, May 13, visitors to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland can take a ride on an 111-year-old steam locomotive. Nowadays, most trains are electric or diesel-powered, but ...

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A 1930 steam engine called The Empress pulled into downtown Franklin Park Wednesday – taking a break from its trek along the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroad line on its trip from Calgary, Canada ...

OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Union Pacific announced today that its legendary steam locomotive Big Boy No. 4014 will embark on a second tour this year, with a trip planned this fall in middle America ...