Steve Roudebush, co-owner of SPEC Machine near Middleton, installs a custom brass bearing on a 1907 Chicago & North Western locomotive the company is rebuilding. The $2 million project has been ...

TOWN OF SPRINGFIELD — The American Locomotive Co. was once one of the largest builders of steam engines in the world. In 1907, six years after the New York company was formed by a merger of the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Wis. (AP) — The American Locomotive Co. was once one of the largest builders of steam engines in the world. In 1907, six years after the New York company was formed by a merger of the ...

Volunteers spent nearly a year rebuilding the diesel engine that once kept Andersen’s Bayport factory on track.

SPRINGFIELD, Wis. (AP) - The American Locomotive Co. was once one of the largest builders of steam engines in the world. In 1907, six years after the New York company was formed by a merger of the ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...

GENESEE TWP, MI -- Genesee County Parks and Recreation Commission officials are preparing to complete the assessment of Steam Locomotive #464 for a rebuild to continue to provide rides for years to ...

The vintage locomotive, Princess Elizabeth. Princess Elizabeth, named after the former Queen when she was still a schoolgirl, suffered a major boiler failure just hours before pulling the luxury ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them that ...

A storied veteran will soon come out of retirement to again scale mountains in southwest Colorado. The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s Locomotive No. 476 in February will take to the ...

A heritage railway has celebrated the re-opening of one of its stations after a major project to rebuild the platform. Telford Steam Railway welcomed visitors and supporters to the reopening of its ...