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For the first time in a generation, a brand-new locomotive will lead Amtrak’s Empire Builder across the prairies and mountains of Montana. This month, Amtrak began using its newly acquired ALC-42 ...

Nineteen thirty-six had been a very good year at the Lima Locomotive Works. In its review of the year past on New Year’s Day 1937 the Lima News judged the plant’s resurgence second in importance only ...

(STAUNTON, VA) — The hills and hollows of the Shenandoah Valley will soon be hearing the “lonesome whistle blow” after long absence, thanks to Staunton’s Virginia Scenic Railway. For more than 70 ...

Reading & Northern’s vintage ‘F-unit’ diesel locomotives 270 and 275 are seen at Jim Thorpe in 2020. Tickets for the railroad’s new excursions between Pittston and Jim Thorpe go on sale tomorrow, ...

In the 1920s, as Argentina's economy boomed and its railway system expanded, toy trains began to capture the imaginations of children and adults. Because British investors and engineers played a key ...

Americans heard the first rumble of a diesel locomotive trekking across the country in May 1936, when the Santa Fe Railroad’s Super Chief passenger train began operating between Los Angeles and ...

NEXT-GEN SMALL-ROAD MOTIVE POWER, RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2025 ISSUE: Short lines and switching operations face several hurdles if they want to acquire locomotives powered by fuels beyond diesel. For ...

Multiple sources confirmed that the locomotives are suffering from a maintenance backlog, with one source telling The News that, of those 115 engines, only 41 were able to go into service on ...