This upcoming season, Dollywood will no longer be home to coal-powered trains. This change is expected to make the ...

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) - The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad has debuted its first locomotive that runs on oil, a more environmentally friendly fuel source that holds less fire risk than a ...

D&SNG launches converted locomotive with drier climate in mind The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad has debuted its first locomotive that runs on oil, a more environmentally friendly fuel ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive ...

Train 2522 is a hulking figure of rusting black metal, echoing back to its heyday when the train hauled tons of coal throughout the state. For more than half a century, children played on the train at ...

On Thursday, Sept. 1, two World War II era train locomotives that were donated from Fergus Falls are now on the tracks at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion. An engineer Thursday, Sept. 1, ...

A Union Pacific train runs on tracks north of Lawrence that were repaired over the weekend after a derailment at the location on Friday, June 17, 2022, mangled them and spilled coal. Trains are ...

And there it sat for decades. That is until around 2016, when the D&SNG decided to add a seventh locomotive to its fleet and looked to the coal-fired No. 493 as an engine that could be converted to ...

In this Feb. 4 photo, the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad locomotive 493, the first D&SNG engine to be converted from coal to run on oil, gets checked over in the rail yard in Durango, ...