Riddle me this: what has 24 wheels, weighs more than three Jumbo Jets, and can pull five miles (eight kilometers) of cargo at seventy miles per hour full steam? That last clue should easily give it ...

The train moved under its own power for the first time since 1952, following more than 30 years of restoration work by museum volunteers.

The Milwaukee County Zoo's popular zoo train will undergo some changes this year. The train's two steam locomotive engines will leave the zoo; they've been sold to the Riverside & Great Northern ...

Hello! I cover Chautauqua County for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at Maki.Becker@wkbw.com ARCADE, N.Y. (WKBW) — Steam Engine #18 is back on the rails again at the Arcade & ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo sold its steam engines to a preservation society in the Wisconsin Dells. If you want to visit the Riverside and Greater Northern Railroad, it is open every day in the summer ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 steam engine embarks on its first coast-to-coast tour to celebrate America's 250th anniversary.

When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, including those of the scanning electron variety, you know you’re building something really, really tiny. All of the usual tiny superlatives ...

Engine 557 sits on rails in front of its home shop in Wasilla. The 557 Restoration Company fired up the old steam locomotive Nov. 8, 2025, for the first time since the 1950s. The last steam locomotive ...

When an inventor has a unit of measurement named after him, it's clear his work had more than a small impact on scientific and industrial progress. So it was for James Watt, whose Watt engine is often ...

An 85-year-old man has been praised for his "dedicated service" to the rail network, even passing on his knowledge to generations of engineers. Until recently, Horace Prickett fro ...

A massive boiler whose steam could be channeled through a long hose to steam-fed farm machines, toys, utility vehicles and other steam-powered apparatus is tended by association member Tom Kouttron, ...