Bismarck's Northern Pacific steam locomotive has a new coat of paint more than 50 years after its last run. Locomotive 2164 was retired to Camp Hancock in 1955. The restoration project will be ...

Life is full of wonderful occupational prospects when you're 6 or 7: professional Wiffle ball player or coloring-book artist, designer of Jetsons-style flying cars and, best of all, steam-locomotive ...

It isn’t much of a stretch to proclaim the 2-8-4 Berkshire-type steam locomotive as the “poster child” of the Super Power era of steam locomotives. “Berkshire,” “Kanawha,” “Big Emma” — regardless of ...

Union Pacific Railroad's historic steam locomotive, No. 844, will be traveling through North Platte Wednesday and Aug. 2 en route to Omaha, where it will celebrate the railroad's history and heritage.

Locomotives have a fascinating history. They were one of the first methods to mass transport goods from one place to another, and while the first railroads used horses to pull carts along the tracks, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam ...

Steam trains were one of the most powerful vehicles of their time, capable of pulling hundreds of cars in one go. Their sheer size, speed, and weight are mesmerizing to think about and captivating to ...

Nebraskans along the historic Union Pacific mainline will get their first looks at the railroad’s newly restored “Big Boy” — the world’s largest operating steam locomotive — in July and again in ...

In the January 1949 issue, Popular Mechanics witnessed the end of the steam locomotive era as the American Locomotive Company, in its 100th year of operation (when combined with the history of its pre ...