Train enthusiasts and history buffs alike will soon have a new Southeast Asian destination to visit, as Vietnam prepares to unveil a revamped pair of vintage steam locomotives from the 1960s. The two ...

Passenger train service in Oneonta had ended only a few years earlier, and it had been much longer since anyone had seen a steam locomotive engine running on the rails in our area. That might explain ...

The state of New Jersey is transforming its abandoned tracks from its long railroad history into beautiful green spaces that ...

It may not be a bullet train, but a steam locomotive made history this week as it became the first steam-driven train clocking 100 mph (161 km/h) on a British mainline track in over 50 years. On ...

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad has been transporting passengers on vintage steam locomotives through the San ...

This week it will be 200 years since what has often been described as the birth of the modern railway - when the Stockton to Darlington public line in north-east England became the world's first to ...

Atlantic Coast Line No. 1504 is on the move again, three decades after the century-old locomotive became a static part of the Prime Osborn Convention Center's parking lot. But while the 80-foot-long ...

Ross E. Rowland Jr., a self-made commodities magnate who traded the cutthroat world of Wall Street for the romantic allure of steam locomotives, dedicating his considerable wealth and unyielding ...

He made a fortune as a commodities broker, then used his wealth to back the American Freedom Train and other high-profile vintage excursions. By Clay Risen Ross E. Rowland Jr., who made his fortune ...