running on tracks, there was the Lombard Steam Log Hauler. This wacky steam-locomotive-like contraption used tank-style tracks instead of railroad tracks to get around, freeing it up to go wherever it ...

A caboose brings up the rear of a train. (Photo by Art Smith) A group of historical amusement park steam engines continue to work building up steam and doing what they were designed to do, haul people ...

In 1901, the tranquility of the forests blanketing the San Bernardino Mountains was pierced by the unfamiliar sound of a steam whistle and the churning of a steam locomotive. The first and only ...

In Cass, W.Va., visitors can ride working steam trains to a replica of a logging camp. Clanking and whirring, a steam locomotive in Cass, W.Va., noses three wagonloads of tourists past a mammoth ...

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FISH CAMP, Calif. -- Lips buzz with excitement as conductor Jeff Harkenrider yells, "All aboard!" Young and old eagerly climb onto the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad's Logger steam train for a ...

It took considerable time and thousands of man-hours for the outside world’s railroads to reach Humboldt County in 1914. And even more money to keep that transportation system up and running. But, the ...

Reporting from Cass, W. Va. — At the old mill town of Cass, nestled deep in a remote holler of West Virginia, coal smoke and history hang in the air. The smoke is from the geared steam locomotives ...

NORTH ADAMS — Four years ago the tiny Hoot, Toot & Whistle Railroad crawled one last time through the hills of North Berkshire to Readsboro, Vt., and stopped. "You can't run on sentiment," declared ...