By Brenden Bobby Reader Contributor If you grew up around here, you likely learned a bit about steam locomotives during Pacific Northwest History class in high school. Since at least the 1890s, the ...

The Class I railroad (NYSE: UNP) and project partner ZTR Control Systems recently wrapped up testing of the first unit of a ...

In the calm before the surge, BNSF is confident its network can handle the coming wave of import containers from Asia.

The Standard Steam Locomotive Company has sent RailAdvent an update on construction work that has been taking place recently.

Big Boy 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, will make two whistle-stops in Greeley, Colo., this summer as ...

Lionel’s No. 671 Pennsylvania RR S2 steam turbine is one of the classic O gauge locomotives of the postwar era. Lionel ...

The Whippany Railway Museum, which traces its history to the excursions offered on a restored steam locomotive on May ... on display and an operating Lionel O gauge model railroad.

A fundraising project to restore a historic steam locomotive in Butte is officially ... and the top prize is a Lionel train set. The original bell for the train was stolen decades ago, but Glen ...

The two-day show is sponsored by the Amherst Railway Society, which defines “large scale” to include S-scale, O-scale (Lionel size ... Society and the Steam Locomotive Operation Group ...

“There’s more to driving a steam ... train, a different weight, it may be dry, it may be wet, the fire is a different temperature… There are so many variables,” she says. The locomotive ...

It was a Marx O Gauge Steam Locomotive set. Marx was a competing model train manufacturer. Soon to follow was a gift of a Lionel O Gauge Diesel Locomotive set. My dad built a 4-foot-by-6 ...