The 'Empress' and Big Boy lead the way in full Positive Train Control compliance. Will other mainline steam locomotives soon follow suit? Still fresh from an overhaul and fully equipped with PTC, ...

Construction of 82045 in progress. // Credit: John Titlow. According to the latest update from the 82045 Steam Locomotive Trust, construction of Riddles 82000 Class 3MT 2-6-2 tank engine No. 82045 is ...

It’s a bumper announcement from the team at The Greatest Gathering. No more than four steam locomotives have been announced to be attending. These are 4930 Hagley Hall and 13268, both courtesy of The ...

Hy-polite Uhry, and Henry A. Luttgens, both of Patterson, N. J., for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive engines for the purpose of improving the working of steam in cylinders ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Britain's oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive is to visit the world's oldest railway. Furness 20, built in 1863, will be at ...

The GM locomotives had a higher pitch sound to them and their idle speed was higher and one always had the feeling they were idling too high. The early 42 Class streamlined cabin designed diesels did ...

A steam locomotive has successfully run using Hitachi Rail’s European Train Control System (ETCS) digital signalling technology for the first time. The trial, completed on the Cambrian line in Wales, ...

The production of railway locomotives, housing the engine of the train, in India reached 1,681 in the last financial year, 2024-25, helping the country surpass the total locomotive production of ...

New Hampshire’s Bartlett Roundhouse Preservation Society is the recipient of this year’s H. Albert Webb Memorial Railroad ...