You can’t keep a good locomotive down—especially when it has the momentum of history behind it. No matter how many times they’ve been repainted for how many purposes, retired and then rehired, ...

For the past four decades, former Norfolk & Western and Southern Pacific locomotive engineer Doyle McCormack has coddled the most familiar steam locomotive operating in North America. Now, Chief ...

Vancouver’s BNSF railyard has a venerable visitor for the next few days: a working steam locomotive. The Southern Pacific 4449 arrived at midday Monday for a few days of video production work, which ...

The 443 ton, 110-foot-long, 5,500 horsepower steam locomotive is an altogether breathtaking sight. I was invited to check out the train's preparation this afternoon at the roundhouse nestled deep ...

Doyle McCormack hoists his 6-foot-2 frame up a ladder to the cab of the Southern Pacific 4449 and takes the engineer's seat near the chrome throttle and about 20 red-colored valve dials and a ...

A steam locomotive traveling from Oregon to Michigan churned into Grand Forks for a brief respite at the Amtrak depot Wednesday afternoon. "We stopped here just to grease things up, and then we'll be ...

On Saturday, May 13, visitors to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland can take a ride on an 111-year-old steam locomotive. Nowadays, most trains are electric or diesel-powered, but ...