On Sunday, Oct. 21, 1957, the fires in the last steam locomotives assigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Northumberland roundhouse were allowed to die, bringing to a close an era that had begun more ...

The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum has transferred ownership of Steam Locomotive 5288 to the Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust of Boyertown, Pa. The partnership will return to Pennsylvania a ...

After years of outdoor deterioration, six steam locomotives will finally have protection from the elements in a new facility. Construction is expected to begin on the building this month at the ...

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 ...

Railroad fans in central Pennsylvania are in for a treat during the month of October as Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611, known as “The Queen of Steam,” visits Strasburg Rail Road in Lancaster County ...

Noel Poirier, executive director of the Age of Steam Roundhouse, walks near Canadian Pacific No. 1293, built in 1948 by Canadian Locomotive Co. It is one of two steam locomotives at the Age of Steam ...