There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast ... to hear of a brand new steam locomotive prototype being considered for revenue freight use on British metals.

With ageing rail stock across Africa, Rolls-Royce has repowered three retired Kenya Railways locomotives in a ...

The project will utilize frames from two 50-year-old locomotives. Norfolk Southern is applying Alstom's hybrid technology, ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast ... to hear of a brand new steam locomotive prototype being considered for revenue freight use on British metals.

The locomotive used for the project was bought ... and then operation of the ex Great Western Railway 2-8-0 heavy freight locomotive number 2874. Made in 1918 to a Churchward design, it stayed ...

The 83-year-old steam locomotive stopped briefly Thursday afternoon spewing steam in Topeka on its ... through which it would travel for 20 years and more than 1 million miles between Utah and Wyoming ...

In a locomotive, that role is to provide power to move freight cars from one place to another. When buying locomotives, one ...

The 83-year-old steam locomotive stopped briefly Thursday afternoon ... more than 1 million miles between Utah and Wyoming hauling freight before retiring in 1961. But one crew member, who was ...