Three superlative Union Pacific steam locomotives
No railroad was better equipped to shoulder the heavy burden of wartime traffic thanks to the three types of Union…
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Diesel-electric locomotives are the backbone of modern-day railroading, offering the power and efficiency needed to haul freight and passenger trains…
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Whether they knew it or not, the Budd Co. was rolling out the final miles in its railcar manufacturing…
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I have always had a thing for “class units,” that is, the first in a series, and “my engine”…
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While growing up in Cleveland and Buffalo after World War II, a close encounter with a 4-6-4 Hudson-type locomotive…
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A particular run of the Kansas City-Florida Special may have changed the course of steam locomotive assignments on the Frisco.…
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The rumble of Canadian Pacific’s 4-6-4 Empress No. 2816 and Union Pacific’s 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4014 echoed across thousands…
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In 1931-32, Chief Mechanical Engineer Charles T. Ripley applied his European experience, along with his work on steam motorcar…
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Has any class of homebuilt, remanufactured mainline steam locomotive ever performed as brilliantly as the Reading T-1 4-8-4? Given the…
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There is always the story of the locomotive that got away. For years back in the late 1960s, whenever…
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When the long-anticipated “Hill Lines” merger finally created the Burlington Northern on March 2, 1970, it was time not…
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The roots of GE’s ES44C4 and ET44C4 locomotives reach back to the transition period in the late 1990s and early…
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