Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...

According to Union Pacific, eight Big Boy engines remain in existence, but only No. 4014 continues to operate. The seven ...

Steam engines like the Fowler B6 were once the peak of British engineering - now almost all are gone. Alex Sharp sets out to ...

UK burgundy passports started in 1988, following the European Community’s common format, and were phased out after Brexit, ...

On Tuesday, December 30, 2025, the General Steam Navigation Locomotive 35011 celebrated 81 years since it first entered service. The historic steam engine has had a bumpy ride this year, after it was ...

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one ...

Smoke billows from the stack of the steam-powered tractor as it chugs along, sounding like a train locomotive. At a top speed ...

Work has been progressing over the last year to get Kamloops’ historic 2141 steam locomotive back to touring  the Thompson ...

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten ...

Here we round up the 10 fastest diesel locomotives ever.

There’s a lesson to be learned when sitting down with William Shatner: whatever you say, assume he’ll remember it—and ...

South Devon Railway is kicking off the new year with the return of its Winter Steam Gala. The three-day event which finishes ...