Countless thousands packed downtown Tamaqua and vicinity on the hottest day of the year Thursday to welcome Union Pacific Railroad’s Big Boy 4014, world’s largest operating steam locomotive. Big Boy, ...

The only running Norfolk & Western Class J-611, an old-fashioned steam engine train, will be giving rides out of Staunton for ...

To commemorate American innovation in this semiquincentennial year, the Virginia Scenic Railway has fired up a “Summer of ...

Saturday marked the bittersweet end of an era for Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad with the last departure of the railroad’s sole remaining coal-burning locomotive, Engine No. 481. The last ...

When the cannons of the Revolutionary War cooled and the nation’s independence was secured, Pennsylvania’s work was far from ...

Riddle me this: what has 24 wheels, weighs more than three Jumbo Jets, and can pull five miles (eight kilometers) of cargo at seventy miles per hour full steam? That last clue should easily give it ...

The war in Ukraine has had an effect on many aspects of life all around the world. Inflation, especially in the price of coal, is jeopardizing the future of some of Britain’s living and breathing ...

Technology tends to have a way of becoming smaller as it evolves. The ever-convenient microchip and lithium-ion battery serve in tandem as the brains of so many devices today, and their sleek and ...

When an inventor has a unit of measurement named after him, it's clear his work had more than a small impact on scientific and industrial progress. So it was for James Watt, whose Watt engine is often ...