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, ...

For the past four decades, former Norfolk & Western and Southern Pacific locomotive engineer Doyle McCormack has coddled the most familiar steam locomotive operating in North America. Now, Chief ...

Vancouver’s BNSF railyard has a venerable visitor for the next few days: a working steam locomotive. The Southern Pacific 4449 arrived at midday Monday for a few days of video production work, which ...

The 443 ton, 110-foot-long, 5,500 horsepower steam locomotive is an altogether breathtaking sight. I was invited to check out the train's preparation this afternoon at the roundhouse nestled deep ...

FARGO Fargo's rails will take a step back in the past this week when a steam locomotive rolls through town. The Southern Pacific Daylight No. 4449 will make a stop in Fargo today and Thursday during ...

drew thousands to Portland's Union Station. The annual event was crowned by the world-famous SP 4449, a restored steam locomotive. And while all the trains have returned to their homes behind closed ...

A steam locomotive traveling from Oregon to Michigan churned into Grand Forks for a brief respite at the Amtrak depot Wednesday afternoon. "We stopped here just to grease things up, and then we'll be ...

On Saturday, May 13, visitors to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland can take a ride on an 111-year-old steam locomotive. Nowadays, most trains are electric or diesel-powered, but ...