I was sitting on our patio accompanied by a beautiful afternoon in mid-October where a blue sky was paintbrushed with clouds ...

Canadian National today unveiled its first new medium horsepower hybrid electric locomotive, a Q19-2.4GH developed in ...

David Crowley was one of only four survivors of the sinking of the steamboat Lexington after a fire burned the wooden boat ...

The decades-long effort to advance the design and technology of steam locomotives constantly circled back to the idea of “make it bigger.” Articulated engines took that notion and doubled it both ...

Apple and Google’s $20 billion deal, which sees Google serve as the default search engine on the iPhone, is under scrutiny. As we reported this morning, the United States DOJ is continuing its ...

Modern automakers tend to favor a small number of highly popular engine formats, such as the inline-four, inline-six, V6, or V8. However, over the course of automotive history, and especially ...

Our cars can make some pretty strange sounds. If you drive them for long enough, you'll most likely experience some fairly unsettling noises at some point or another. While any unusual sound ...

I can never resist a good oddball engine, and this one’s pedigree is impressive. See if you can bend your mind around it. Most of you reading this probably have at least a basic understanding of ...

NYC 4-8-2 No. 3001 at the National New York Central Railroad Museum, Elkhart, Ind., on April 28, 2017. A plan to restore the locomotive to operation was one of the year’s top preservation stories. Dan ...