Donna Smolko lifted her cameraphone Saturday as a 1.2 million-pound Union Pacific steam engine’s high-pitched whistle blew in Cresson. And in downtown Johnstown, crowds greeted Big Boy ...

Update: Big Boy train makes its 1st central Pa. stop before cheering crowds: photos LEBANON — Massive crowds came out Tuesday ...

The transcontinental railroad changed just about everything in America: transportation, communications, commerce, cities, politics, even our perception of time. Correspondent David Pogue visits ...

In the January 1949 issue, Popular Mechanics witnessed the end of the steam locomotive era as the American Locomotive Company, in its 100th year of operation (when combined with the history of its pre ...

Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 – The world’s largest steam locomotive. Big Boy, the world’s largest steam locomotive, is coming back to Houston and will be on public display this weekend as part of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Union Pacific’s Big Boy has moved on for now, but Northeast Ohio’s summer of steam is not over. Less than three weeks after the world’s largest operating steam locomotive rolled ...

Something big is coming to Western Pennsylvania. The world’s largest operating steam engine, Union Pacific Big Boy 4014, is ...

Train enthusiasts will celebrate the 100th anniversary of a historic Swiss railway this weekend as vintage steam locomotives ...

Tracks Ahead is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...