Max Ephraim Jr., 82, who was obsessed with solving mechanical problems as a boy on the South Side and who helped design the modern diesel locomotive in the 1940s, died Sunday, Sept. 16, of kidney ...

After weeks of preparations, Union Pacific’s massive Big Boy steam locomotive, will leave Fairplex on Sunday and embark on the next leg of a multi-phase move ending later this year when it reaches ...

EBRD, EIB and EU have helped Moldova to acquire new locomotives. Credit: European Investment Bank / CFM. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) ...

Bruce Parent (left) works at cleaning the crossheads of Union Pacific Steam Locomotive No. 4018 "Big Boy" Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at the Museum of the American Railroad in Dallas' Fair Park. All of ...

What is it about old trains that inspires such interest and devotion? The fans of Engine 819 can explain. But first, let's get the specs out of the way. Officially known as St. Louis Southwestern No.

If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

There’s something wonderfully romantic about steam locomotives. They speak to you. They have personalities. They whomp and clank and hiss. There’s a lot going on. For the engineer and fireman — the ...