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Locomotion Number 1, the first steam engine to pull a passenger train on a public railway, was spotted at Wolsingham Station, ...
The Historic Billings Deport could see trains again as HB 848 pushes for state support for restoring passenger rail in Southern Montana.
Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner stepped down amid rising political pressure, just as the railroad posted record ridership and ...
The Fore River Railroad, a 2.5-mile short line in Quincy, Mass., has defied the odds by surviving and thriving for 122 years.
History of early Santa Fe diesel locomotive development in relation to Chief Mechanical Engineer Charles T. Ripley ...
In the early 1950s Peterborough's famous aerial photographer Harry R. Oakman captured this bird's eye view of the village of ...
Hudson steam engine and tender from 1950 did much to revive the passion dedicated O gauge modeler Walt Urban Jr. has for toy ...
For those on Tamil Nadu’s Rameswaram island, the 110-year-old Pamban railway bridge is a lifeline, a thread binding its ...
Railway Post Office (RPO) postal car interior, c.1925. Courtesy Library of Congress. Long before one could casually retrieve ...
Translated as ‘the little gauge’, La Trochita, or the old Patagonian Express is a steam train that travels through some of ...
Steam trains are making a comeback in South Africa. Although steam belongs to a bygone era when these types of trains powered ...