TONGCHUAN, China — Liberation 2368 is a beautiful beast living on borrowed time. On most days, the huffing, puffing steam engine pants back and forth through the honey-colored hillsides of central ...

With barely a tear or backward glance, China is saying goodbye to steam. And when it turns the page, so will we all. China is the last country still using steam locomotives in large numbers. Their ...

At 16:00 on 17 May with a crisp whistle, two units of CKD9A-1 type high-power mainline freight locomotives made in CRRC Ziyang departed from Alataw Pass in Xinjiang into Central Asia, via Kazakhstan, ...

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, the replacement ...

China has unveiled yet another massive breakthrough in the realm of high-speed rail travel, courtesy of a new prototype train and a plan to install even more high-speed tracks in the next five years.

On 3 June, a brand new blue refurbished hybrid locomotive was loaded onto a truck and sent from the delivery line of CRRC Ziyang to the transportation department of Ma Steel in Anhui Province. This ...

China’s first hydrogen-powered locomotive converted from an internal combustion engine rolled off the production line in Datong City, Shanxi Province. China Railway Rolling Stock Corp. (CRRC), the ...