Forget the portrait of the sweating steam locomotive engineer operating his smoke-belching steed across the great Southwestern desert with superheated air blasting his face. In the latest move to make ...

THE project to build Britain's most powerful express passenger steam locomotive has taken another step forward – with work carried out on the driver's cab. A trial fitting of the driver's cab for No.

Life is full of wonderful occupational prospects when you're 6 or 7: professional Wiffle ball player or coloring-book artist, designer of Jetsons-style flying cars and, best of all, steam-locomotive ...

LOS ANGELES – The board of the Southern California commuter railroad voted unanimously Friday to spend an estimated $19 million on leased locomotives as a stop-gap solution to an undisclosed problem ...

Amtrak's retired HHP8 electric locomotives - nicknamed "Hippos" during their relatively short operating life - are nearing their return to service as cab cars. The company operated ...