Few things resonate sweeter than a solid father-son relationship. That’s especially true when sons proudly follow in their ...

There's a rare and remote school near the Colorado-New Mexico border: the Cumbres & Toltec engineer and fireman school.

Retired aerospace engineer Chris Weiser is here learning what makes a locomotive move because he’s making the switch from designing and building light weight aircraft to building a heavy steam ...

The man controlling the Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4014 steam locomotive as it cruised from Columbus to Fremont on Sunday, June 11, took a few minutes during a stop in Columbus to speak with the ...

Steam train engineer Mark Gonzales shares a passion for trains with Walt Disney, who loved to hop on the Disneyland locomotives that make the park’s famed Grand Circle Tour and never wanted to ...

So being a train engineer was an extremely honorable thing for a family," he said. Li Wen became a diesel engineer in 1984, as China was saying goodbye to most of its old steam trains.

Johnny Sala, the San Francisco Zoo's train engineer/conductor talks about his experience at the zoo in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, February 23, 2011.

On Saturday, the mighty locomotive moved itself down the tracks under its own steam power for the first time in many long years. The 2926 is one of the largest passenger engines ever built.