"There's a lot of excitement," Andy Spinelli, president of the museum, said this week. "We still have a lot of work to do, ...

Toddington Standard Locomotive Limited has issued an update on the progress in overhauling the boiler of Standard Class 4 2-6 ...

Of the three main types, the grand total of geared steam locomotives built in the U.S. topped out at around 4,500. Despite ...

No, it’s an entirely new design with nothing in common with the locomotives of the past, as [Terrier55Stepney] tells us in the video below the break. Gone is the huge boiler and reciprocating ...

A steam locomotive boiler overhaul has revealed unexpected problems ahead of its planned used for the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway.

Half of the parts, including the boiler, needed to be rebuilt ... In today's program, we take a look at a steam locomotive being revived for the first time in half a century.

Union Pacific Railroad’s “Challenger” No. 3985, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, will stop in Shakopee as part of a five-state, 1,750-mile tour from Cheyenne, Wyo., to ...

By hinging the drivers, many of these locomotives can take tighter curves compared to their traditional, rigid-frame single-cylinder counterparts, despite having more wheels and bigger boilers.