"There's a lot of excitement," Andy Spinelli, president of the museum, said this week. "We still have a lot of work to do, ...

Of the three main types, the grand total of geared steam locomotives built in the U.S. topped out at around 4,500. Despite ...

You can also track where the Big Boy is on its journey through the Union Pacific steam schedule. As part of its “Westward Bound” tour, the world’s largest steam locomotive is coming to ...

Instead, this is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s and 30s experiments with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific’s oil-fired condensing turbo-electrics. The new idea here ...

including two from Union Pacific: 4-6-6-4 No. 3985 and Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014. To find articulated steam locomotives that still operate, check out the Great American Steam Locomotives ...

With a new acquisition, a West Sacramento-based company can build hydrogen fuel-cell trains that could get fuel from local ...

Just days after we wrote about the problem of trying to introduce cleaner locomotives into existing railway's fleets, Union Pacific Railroad has unveiled the first of 60 new environmentally ...

Union Pacific Railroad’s “Challenger” No. 3985, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, will stop in Shakopee as part of a five-state, 1,750-mile tour from Cheyenne, Wyo., to ...