In 1928, the Northern Pacific went shopping for a locomotive that could eliminate doubleheading on the eastern end of its ...

There was nothing like it.” The 611 was among the N&W’s last steam locomotives. Built in 1950, she pulled the Powhatan Arrow, the famed passenger train, between Norfolk and Cincinnati. She was retired ...

After a $500,000 overhaul, the William H. Simpson No. 17 steam engine is back to enchant York County's holiday season ...

Being pulled by another train, the Norfolk & Western 611 steam locomotive sped past onlookers Thursday on its way to the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke. The steam engine, built in 1950, ...

BE A PRIVATE EVENT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 67 YEAR STEAM LOCOMOTIVE. 2926 IS MAKING TRACKS AND GOING PLACES TODAY FROM ITS HOME YARD ON EIGHTH STREET TO A PUBLIC APPEARANCE AT A BREWPUB A MILE AND A ...

The mournful wail of the whistle, the whoosh of boiler steam and the welcome warning of "All aboard!" It's all part of the romance of the steam locomotive, ready to power travelers' journeys into ...

SPENCER — The rail enthusiast looks at the Class J 611 steam locomotive, and he sees power, majesty, engineering, the bullet nose, the Tuscan red stripe, the giant wheels, the gleaming rods and the ...