The German Steam Locomotive Museum or DDM is located at the foot of the famous Schiefe Ebene ramp on the Ludwig South-North Railway in Neuenmarkt, Upper Franconia. This region is in northern Bavaria, ...

I find steam locomotives incredible pieces of engineering. Very functional, but beautifully made. And if you start to realise what kind of tooling and machine facilities they had in those days, it ...

Similar systems for electric and internal combustion engined locomotives and railbuses were not developed until the 1930s, as the numbers of these types of motive power continued to rise and the ...

Talgo “Travca” electric locomotive No.105019 for Germany’s DB , at left, is displayed next to the latest Traxx model from Alstom. Keith Fender Spanish passenger train manufacturer Talgo is exhibiting ...

Not only is it the biggest steam locomotive in operation, it's also one of just eight still in existence from the 25 that were built during World War II, and the only one of those eight still ...

Historical Museum will be one of the stops the Union Pacific steam locomotive Big Boy No. 4014 makes Monday. The museum has a ...

4014 is the world's largest operating steam locomotive ... The American Locomotive Company built just 25 Big Boy models for Union Pacific during World War II. Big Boy No. 4014 is a 132-foot ...

The award-winning East Lancashire Railway (ELR) is appealing for donations to help its work restoring its Crab steam locomotive 13065 back to working order. ELR describes the Crab as the “flagship” ...

The Nene Valley Railway has provided an update on the visit of 60163 Tornado. The lengthy overhaul of the A1 locomotive is now nearing completion and has been based at the Great Central Railway in ...