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 ...

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 ...

HUNTINGDON COUNTY, JUST WEST OF THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, MAKING SOME HISTORY TODAY. INSTEAD OF BOARDING THE BIG YELLOW BUS, THEY GOT ON A STEAM LOCOMOTIVE BUILT MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO. NOW THAT’S THE ...

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 ...

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania has met a $50,000 matching grant challenge by the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society, with funds designated for the preservation of five historic ...

Experience engineering brilliance at this Pennsylvania landmark, where craftsmanship and innovation are on full display.

Farewell to the Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611! This last-of-its kind locomotive from 1950 passed through New Cumberland on Monday as it made its way from Strasburg Rail Road to its next stop in ...

The Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust wants to bring the steam locomotive back to the region. The nonprofit, which restores and operates the Colebrookdale Railroad between Pottstown and ...

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 ...

Rail enthusiasts around the country are gearing up for a once-in-a-lifetime event as Union Pacific’s legendary steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, embarks on th ...