Alaska Public Media

Alaska's last steam engine retired in the '50s. These volunteers aim to get it back on track.

Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...
KTNV Las Vegas

Ringing in 2025 on a 100-year-old locomotive steam engine

ELY, Nev. (KTNV) — In one Nevada community, the history of the American railway is kept alive and well. "Our trains are 100 and 150 years old, and that's what we run. We have people who will reserve ...
WKBW

'Something special about a steam engine': 104-year-old locomotive rides again at Arcade & Attica Railroad

Hello! I cover Chautauqua County for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at [email protected] ARCADE, N.Y. (WKBW) — Steam Engine #18 is back on the rails again at the Arcade & ...
The Advocate

These 'train nuts' have a mission: Find a century-old New Orleans steam engine a new home.

On a sliver of land in Jefferson Parish, between packed parking lots and near a helicopter landing pad, sits a bygone mode of transportation: a steam engine. The hulking Southern Pacific engine No.