For the first time since the 1950s, a steam-powered locomotive will whistle through Genesee Valley. Starting this weekend, and continuing Aug. 26-27, the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum ...

The N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer on Thursday showed off a Class J #611 steam locomotive to promote trips to Lynchburg, Va., on April 8 and to Charlotte on April 9. Travelers will ride trains ...

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 ...

SPENCER — An iconic steam passenger engine built in 1950 is headed to Spencer for a complete restoration that should put the Norfolk & Western Class J 611 locomotive back on the rails, blowing her ...

A VETERAN engineman and stalwart Swanage Railway volunteer has been reunited with the express steam locomotive that he worked on as a young cleaner and fireman at Bournemouth station in the late 1950s ...

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 ...

Many families attended an event to officially unveil two 1950s European steam locomotives at Niagara Railway Museum, Saturday. Donated by the family of late Marineland owner, John Holer, families, ...

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Two centuries after the world's first steam locomotive came into being, the gigantic machines are still puffing and carrying cargo in China's old industrial base. "This is one of the few places in the ...

With a top speed of 125 km/h, “B” (“Bryansky”) was the fastest steam locomotive in the Russian Empire in the 1910s. It managed to survive both world wars and operated until the mid-1950s, when the era ...

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