When the locomotives met, their boilers exploded almost simultaneously, hurling metal fragments and debris high into the air.

The railroading history of Nevada includes much more than the well known Virginia and Truckee and Central Pacific railroads. There have been several short-line, narrow-gauge railroads that hauled ...

Aiken was a railroad town long before the community became a fashionable retreat and almost 120 years before the phrase ...

Union Pacific is dropping new hints this week of a coast-to-coast journey for its historic locomotive nicknamed 'Big Boy' ...

HAMBURG, Pa. | From the Smithsonian to Berks County, some treasured pieces of locomotive history have found a home at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg. "Most times when we think about ...

The Northwest Railway Museum is completing a trade this week that will send a 1951 diesel engine from their collection to Nevada, and bring a 1940 locomotive from Longview to its original home in King ...

In affiliation with the Smithsonian Institution, the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, according to the organization's website, is "home to the General locomotive, stolen during the ...

In 1828 the Sellers of Cardington, Upper Darby, had two separate workshops. One was the “iron works.” Evidently the “iron works” shop was the site where textile manufacturing was done; for the making ...

NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) – The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS) revealed a major cosmetic change to historic steam locomotive no. 765 on Friday. In a move to honor its unique history and ...

GOLDEN, Colo. — After years of restoration, the famous Rio Grande Southern Locomotive No. 20 rolled into the Colorado Railroad Museum Tuesday. For the past 12 years, it's been undergoing restoration ...

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — Hundreds of railroad enthusiasts were in Jonesborough for a train show to highlight the region’s locomotive history. Hobbyists expanded their collections and enjoyed a ...