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World’s largest steam locomotive plans historic tour for America’s 250th birthday
The US is preparing another historic coast-to-coast journey for Big Boy 4014, the world’s ...
In the 1950s, a new kind of locomotive made even extreme hills easy for trains to climb. But this extra-powerful engine came ...
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One of the world's biggest locomotives was as long as a Boeing 747 and was powered by a coal-burning turbine that ate itself
The Union Pacific Railroad used to be obsessed with power. The railroad spent decades searching for and developing one locomotive to rule them all. This search resulted in icons like the Big Boy and ...
There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...
Locomotives have a fascinating history. They were one of the first methods to mass transport goods from one place to another, and while the first railroads used horses to pull carts along the tracks, ...
JAMESTOWN, Calif.--Stephanie Tadlock is a steam nerd. For years, Tadlock has been a volunteer at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park here in California's Gold Country, the country's longest continuously ...
Illinois Central steam locomotive No. 790 had spent 55 years in freight service and was headed for the scrap yard in 1959 when “railfan” Lou Keller bought it and brought it to Cedar Rapids from ...
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 ...
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