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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deep in the jungle of trains, rails and cargo trucks at Brooklyn Rail Yard in Southeast Portland, a beast is coming to life. A 110-foot-long, 433-ton, 5,500-horsepower beast. It's the , one of the ...

The GS4 Southern Pacific 4449 locomotive carries roughly 200 people during the Holiday Express event, which was hosted Saturday by the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland. The historic locomotive ...

Train buffs lined the tracks Sunday in Kalamazoo as the Southern Pacific 4449 steam locomotive passed through town. The locomotive made an unscheduled stop for about 5 minutes at the train station in ...