Q: I need help identifying a specific Pennsylvania RR steam engine. The number on the cab was 1299. What class was this locomotive? I have a picture of me as a boy looking out the fireman’s ...

A steam-powered locomotive that was on display at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute for the last 90 years will be moved to the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum in Strasburg, Lancaster County. The 185 ...

The East Broad Top Railroad in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania has restored a 107-year-old, steam-powered locomotive built by Philadelphia's Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia. The foundation ...

The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum has transferred ownership of Steam Locomotive 5288 to the Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust of Boyertown, Pa. The partnership will return to ...

Steamtown, located in the heart of Scranton, works to preserve and interpret the history of steam railroading in the United ...

The plan is to lease the locomotive for excursions in eastern Pennsylvania and throughout the Northeast. Restoration of No. 2100 has been ongoing since American Steam Railroad leased the privately ...

The Pioneer is a steam locomotive made in 1851 by Seth Wilmarth, owner of a large machine shop in Boston who made few locomotives. ... The Pennsylvania RR (then one of the nation’s largest) absorbed ...