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 ...

Hundreds gathered in the black-and-white photograph were on hand to witness the Seaboard Air Line’s steam locomotive, the ...

The pioneer George Stephenson, and the magic of the Rainhill Trials, are central to Susan Brownrigg’s joyous children’s book, ...

Comes as a box of bits for more than $2000,” Darryl Judkins of the Tauranga Model Railway Club said. So 2000 reasons you ...

“These are the big boys fighting ... Then, on Jan. 7, 1927, the Seaboard Air Line's now famous steam locomotive, the Orange Blossom Special, puffed into town from New York, carrying with ...

As a small boy, one of my favorite stories was my Uncle Curt’s tale about a hostler buddy of his who had ended his railroad ...

(The Union Pacific Big Boy is 132 feet 97/8 inches long ... When done, the plan is to make a run at the world speed record for steam locomotives established by London & North Eastern Railway ...

New York Central No. 3001 — Yes, Union Pacific’s Big Boy completed two tours in 2024 and the CPKC ... the D&SNG has been converting its steam locomotives to oil and using more diesel power along the ...

Celebrating 27 years in 2025 this well-established UK based company offer “general interest rail, nature and culture” and a ...

This thing of “beauty” is a model steam locomotive – a J Class, a legendary servant of New Zealand Railways out of the 1950s, ...

Union Pacific’s CEO Jim Vena told a shipper conference in May that he’d like to see his Big Boy and No. 2816 appear together. So perhaps the steam story of 2025 will see these two great steam ...