In 1882, Joe M. Douglas bought a small railroad from Frederick Birdsall. The railroad ran in Dayton Valley, carrying ore tailings from Gold Canyon to a nearby mill with a connection to the Carson and ...

Longtime Louisville & Nashville Railroad employee Charles Castner died last month at the age of 97. He co-wrote a book in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a 1954 view from the running board of Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 Berkshire-type No. 703, standing in the siding at New Douglas, ...

Wyoming is a long way to travel from Rochester, Minn., to see a train. But this wasn’t just any train. The Union Pacific Railroad recently celebrated the 150th anniversary of the completion of the ...

Click here if you’re unable to view the photo gallery on your mobile device. The unmistakable sound of Redwood Valley Railway’s steam trains will reverberate through the Berkeley hills this weekend ...

The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...

A star-studded line-up of historic steam locomotives will take centre stage this autumn. The Autumn Steam Gala will take place at The Watercress Line from October 3 to 5, featuring guest engines 60007 ...

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Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago. Even now, in the age of electric trains, SLs still enjoy deep-rooted popularity, and some ...