Alaska Public Media

Alaska's last steam engine retired in the '50s. These volunteers aim to get it back on track.

Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...

Compressed-air tech fuels hopes of resurrecting steam engines

Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.
Ames Tribune

The Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 steam engine is visiting Boone and Ames this week

The world's largest steam engine will roll through the heart of Iowa this fall. The Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 will soon depart on its Heartland of America Tour, highlighted by an overnight stop ...
Nashville Scene

Train Preservationists Enter ‘Final Mile’ of Restoration on Engine 576

Remember that train engine that used to sit in Centennial Park? It’s on its way back to the rails. The restoration process for steam engine 576 (proper name Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis 576) ...
The Herald-Mail

N&W 611 steam engine passes through Chambersburg, Greencastle, Hagerstown

Being pulled by another train, the Norfolk & Western 611 steam locomotive sped past onlookers Thursday on its way to the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke. The steam engine, built in 1950, ...