ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – For many, the Norfolk and Western Class J No. 611 is more than just a train, its a local legend. Now, a ...

Railroad fans in central Pennsylvania are in for a treat during the month of October as Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611, known as “The Queen of Steam,” visits Strasburg Rail Road in Lancaster County ...

Farewell to the Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611! This last-of-its kind locomotive from 1950 passed through New Cumberland on Monday as it made its way from Strasburg Rail Road to its next stop in ...

In the January 1949 issue, Popular Mechanics witnessed the end of the steam locomotive era as the American Locomotive Company, in its 100th year of operation (when combined with the history of its pre ...

It was the 1950s, a transitional postwar era when road transportation was still picking up pace, and railways did the heavy lifting. Steam engines were on the way out as diesel locomotives gained a ...

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 ...

Today's installment for "Throwback Thursday" takes us to the southeast corner of the Kansas State Fairgrounds. In the middle 1950s, the railroads were making the conversion from steam to diesel ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Trainspotters and railfans rejoice: The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive, which hauled freight between Wyoming and Utah in the 1940s and 1950s, is back on ...