The railroading history of Nevada includes much more than the well known Virginia and Truckee and Central Pacific railroads. There have been several short-line, narrow-gauge railroads that hauled ...

Volunteers spent nearly a year rebuilding the diesel engine that once kept Andersen’s Bayport factory on track.

In 1828 the Sellers of Cardington, Upper Darby, had two separate workshops. One was the “iron works.” Evidently the “iron works” shop was the site where textile manufacturing was done; for the making ...

In affiliation with the Smithsonian Institution, the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, according to the organization's website, is "home to the General locomotive, stolen during the ...

The Northwest Railway Museum is completing a trade this week that will send a 1951 diesel engine from their collection to Nevada, and bring a 1940 locomotive from Longview to its original home in King ...

SUNOL — Steam engines are alive, says Ronald Vale. “It sits there and it hisses at you. You hear the whine of the turbo generator. … The air pump will pump. It’s just more alive than a diesel ...

NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) – The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS) revealed a major cosmetic change to historic steam locomotive no. 765 on Friday. In a move to honor its unique history and ...

Steam Into History Inc. has a new locomotive to pull its excursion trains -- a 1950s diesel that was part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The locomotive moved down the tracks recently to the station in ...

GOLDEN, Colo. — After years of restoration, the famous Rio Grande Southern Locomotive No. 20 rolled into the Colorado Railroad Museum Tuesday. For the past 12 years, it's been undergoing restoration ...