Locomotives in the scrapyard Sitting switchers The switcher is a rapidly-dying species on American railroads. Pushed out of ...

Good news for Metro-North riders, especially those who take the Danbury, Waterbury and Hartford lines: new locomotives are ...

NETHERLANDS: Tata Steel's Velsen-Noord plant has put into service the first of 10 General Electric 90 tonne Bo-Bo ...

In February of 2011, the URI Foundation announced a $6 million estate gift from Rhode Island native and URI alumna Helen Izzi ...

The company has been planning on adding low-emission locomotives for some years. A new $3.5 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will help make it possible. The Napa ...

Still, there’s only one locomotive on display in my office at home, which must make it the locomotive I love the best. I’m talking about the Lionel No. 675 steam engine and tender I received for ...

There is either a very mistaken notion among mechanics generally concerning the power of locomotives, or else the rules laid down in books for estimating their horse power are not correct.

Kenya Railways and UK-based power and propulsion systems group Rolls-Royce have announced that three of the former’s heavy haulage locomotives have been re-engined with the latter’s mtu Series ...

The biofuel is being used to continually maintain the steam locomotive engine’s fire, which then protects their boilers. As much as 530 tons of coal was poured into three steam engines last year ...

Hy-polite Uhry, and Henry A. Luttgens, both of Patterson, N. J., for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive engines for the purpose of improving the working of steam in cylinders ...