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, ...

SP&S 700 locomotive boiler work looks to future as team of volunteers puts on some steam It’s a well-known fact that Santa Claus loves steam trains, and so does the dedicated crew rebuilding one of ...

At the southern end of the Kern County Museum’s Pioneer Village sits a grand turn-of-the-century steam locomotive, an impressive nod to a bygone era, that will be celebrated in July, 69 years after it ...

Chuffing, hissing and moaning, steam engines are like mythic creatures — dragonlike spectacles that draw a crowd wherever they go. But in October 1956, the era of daily steam engines was ending in San ...

Though most people aren’t aware of it, women have played a role in the construction and maintenance of the Southern Pacific Railroad since it first reached Tucson, according to the Arizona History ...

OGDEN — The Utah State Railroad Museum is gearing up to receive a piece for its collection that will help to tell a fuller story of railroading in the state. Earlier this month, the Union Station ...