Meet the machine that changed the course of American history! Today, we’re firing up the boiler and riding the rails through the last two centuries at The Henry Ford, exploring how a steam locomotive ...

Longtime Louisville & Nashville Railroad employee Charles Castner died last month at the age of 97. He co-wrote a book in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a 1954 view from the running board of Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 Berkshire-type No. 703, standing in the siding at New Douglas, ...

The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...

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