A new locomotive will soon be riding the rails between Boyertown and Pottstown. The Colebrookdale Railroad announced Friday that it has taken possession of a 1950s-era "GP-10-" locomotive. Community ...

SPENCER — An iconic steam passenger engine built in 1950 is headed to Spencer for a complete restoration that should put the Norfolk & Western Class J 611 locomotive back on the rails, blowing her ...

The N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer on Thursday showed off a Class J #611 steam locomotive to promote trips to Lynchburg, Va., on April 8 and to Charlotte on April 9. Travelers will ride trains ...

Railroad fans in central Pennsylvania are in for a treat during the month of October as Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611, known as “The Queen of Steam,” visits Strasburg Rail Road in Lancaster County ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Midwest Terminals in Toledo reconfigured a diesel locomotive from the 1950s into a 100% battery-powered locomotive. This is the first of its kind within the United States. The ...

If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

Fred Walters laughs during a discussion of his plans for future historical exploration of the 1950s that will include a model railroad layout in his living room featuring an American Flyer locomotive ...

A train ride that used to delight children at Kiddytown, a small amusement park that operated in the 1950s and 60s in Norridge on land that later became Harlem Irving Park shopping mall, was found in ...

Germany may be home to one of the world’s fastest trains—the DeutscheBahn ICE speeds through the scenic German countryside at 205mph—but next spring the city of Berlin will be honoring a slower era of ...