Forget the portrait of the sweating steam locomotive engineer operating his smoke-belching steed across the great Southwestern desert with superheated air blasting his face. In the latest move to make ...

“The steam locomotive was the only machine ever made by man that was alive under steam,” Elwood continues. “She made breathing sounds, screeching, clanging, banging, hissing and all the sounds of a ...

The man controlling the Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4014 steam locomotive as it cruised from Columbus to Fremont on Sunday, June 11, took a few minutes during a stop in Columbus to speak with the Tribune ...

Voice recordings of one of Britain's most celebrated steam locomotive engineers are being sought as part of celebrations to ...

Life is full of wonderful occupational prospects when you're 6 or 7: professional Wiffle ball player or coloring-book artist, designer of Jetsons-style flying cars and, best of all, steam-locomotive ...

Union Pacific has donated a “small portion,” including three of the largest locomotives ever built, of its heritage fleet to non-profit Railroading Heritage of Midwest America (RRHMA). The equipment ...

Dan Wolf has a score to settle. Among Southern California railroad veterans, word is circulating that a local resident there is the oldest living steam locomotive engineer. Wolf politely–make that ...

James Walker, a retired engineer who served the old Pennsylvania Railroad, Penn Central, Conrail and Amtrak lines and was a railroad union official, died of pneumonia Saturday at Gilchrist Hospice ...

Few things resonate sweeter than a solid father-son relationship. That’s especially true when sons proudly follow in their father’s footsteps. For locomotive engineer Robert Burkhardt, that ...