You can’t keep a good locomotive down—especially when it has the momentum of history behind it. No matter how many times they’ve been repainted for how many purposes, retired and then rehired, ...

The SP 4449 steam locomotive takes Amtrak's Empire Builder route through Columbia County on Aug. 3, 2009. At first scheduled to stop in Portage for servicing, it instead continued to Wisconsin Dells.

For the past four decades, former Norfolk & Western and Southern Pacific locomotive engineer Doyle McCormack has coddled the most familiar steam locomotive operating in North America. Now, Chief ...