Norfolk & Western Class A locomotive No. 1218, the 2-6-6-4 built by the railroad’s East End Shops in Roanoke in 1943, will be ...

History of steam locomotive American Freedom Train 1, also known as the Reading Co. 2101, and its future at the B&O Railroad ...

Z Catch Train Shop, 5 Tysen St., Staten Island NY 10301, offers a custom-run MTH New York, Susquehanna & Western Alco RS1 ...

For this week's This is Home, we take a look at a local organization that brings together model railroad enthusiasts from ...

Today people who were not alive when its smoke-spewing coal-fired trains passed through Remington, Wyman Park, Roland Park, ...

A group of mostly volunteers are working to overhaul Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad's steam locomotive, the only ...

On the night of Oct. 28, 1967, masked desperadoes on horseback and firing pistols overtook a New Hope & Ivyland passenger ...

but it wasn't until about 1804 that the first steam-powered trains began operating. The earliest ones were used to move coal, ...

See the model trains on display at the 34th annual Bergen County Model Railroad Club's train show in Pearl River, NY.

Since then, the railroad industry has expanded exponentially ... the colors and meanings were reconfigured. As for the trains themselves, steam power continued to dominate locomotion until ...