SUNOL — Steam engines are alive, says Ronald Vale. “It sits there and it hisses at you. You hear the whine of the turbo generator. … The air pump will pump. It’s just more alive than a diesel ...

In this 2017 file photo, a miniature steam locomotive is on display at the Frisco Heritage Museum. The Allen City Council recently approved moving an actual steam locomotive to the Allen Heritage ...

ELY, Nev. (KTNV) — In one Nevada community, the history of the American railway is kept alive and well. "Our trains are 100 and 150 years old, and that's what we run. We have people who will reserve ...

The locomotive that will give the steam for Steam into History's excursion service is seen in this Nov. 2012 photograph, courtesy of the manufacturer Kloke Locomotive Works. The run between New ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A craze swept America around the beginning of the 20th century: Inviting spectators to watch two steam locomotives running at high speeds crash into each other head-on. And it likely ...

HUNTINGDON COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — This weekend saw the third annual "East Broad Top Goes To War: Living History" event at the famous railroad. People got to ride a century-old steam locomotive, tour the ...

In my last Ron Devlin’s History Book, I wrote about Reading Railroad locomotives being used to generate steam for the Reading Steam Heat & Power Co. after a 1958 fire. Bill Richardson of Reading ...

LAWRENCE — When the Kinks’ Ray Davies penned the tune “Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,” the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at ...

The old-fashioned toot of the steam whistle heralded the arrival of steam locomotive No. 8444 – one of the last operating steam locomotives – near the Expo ’74 grounds. It was hauling eight train cars ...

WEST CHICAGO, Ill. (WLS) -- The world's largest steam-powered locomotive is rolling its way through Chicago's suburbs, and drawing large crowds everywhere it goes. It's called the "Big Boy," and it's ...

It is big. And loud. Furthermore, it belches steam. "It's the smell," says railroad fanatic Sam Sargent about a 1940s train engine known as the Union Pacific Big Boy, the largest, heaviest and most ...