HOLLIDAYSBURG – After being transported by tractor-trailer and hoisted by cranes, a steam locomotive boiler, which was manufactured in the 1920s, was visible just after 1 p.m. on Everett Railroad ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The restoration of a World War 2-era steam locomotive, Number 576, is forging ahead at full speed, as it finally receives its wheels back. With the support of the Nashville ...

A self-propelled steam locomotive log-loader, complete with its own firebox, oil-fired boiler, operator’s chair, hand levers, and foot pedals, built in 1925 and kept nearly a century in Tuolumne ...

The Northwest Railway Museum is completing a trade this week that will send a 1951 diesel engine from their collection to Nevada, and bring a 1940 locomotive from Longview to its original home in King ...

BALTIMORE (AP) - Baltimore’s B&O Railroad Museum is putting a 217-ton steam locomotive aboard a train to its new home with the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad in Cumberland. A scenic railroad ...

Jim Plunkett smoked Salems and wore Ray-Bans, and his jeans were hitched with a big brass buckle. Stamped on the buckle was "2467," the name of the mighty old locomotive that has been a part of ...

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