For decades, Americans all over the country have taken rides in trains pulled by a legend and perhaps didn’t even know it.

A look at rare diesel locomotives still in regular service and the dwindling fleet of these unique and historic workhorses.

Locomotive 5128 — rolled onto the auction block in Roanoke in 2017, few imagined it would soon wear a coat of Victorian blue and gold. Thanks to Scott and Susan Bentley's gift, the Colebrookdale ...

The GT26CU-3/Class 39-200 is the first new diesel-electric locomotive for South Africa’s Transnet Freight Rail in 20 years. Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. (EMD) and Transnet Rail Engineering (TRE) have ...

The new zero-emission, zero-idle EMD Joule battery electric locomotive, a product of Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail, will serve Pacific Harbor Line’s cargo short-haul service between ships ...

EMD’s heavy haul locomotives produced for SNIM have a lightweight design in order to meet the 30-ton axle load requirement, while providing the tractive effort required for the mining operation.

Learn more about the Athearn Genesis HO GP40-2L and watch it switch cars on Model Railroader’s Winston-Salem Southbound ...