For the first time ever, both coasts could receive a visit from the world's largest operating steam locomotive.

The 133-foot-long locomotive is the only Big Boy to still travel the tracks.

Wabtec’s FLXdrive Heavy Haul locomotive, the world’s first 100% battery-electric heavy-haul locomotive for mainline service, is headed to Australia to transport iron ore. Iron ore mining company Roy ...

Cheyenne-based Big Boy 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, will make its first ever coast-to-coast tour ...

Join Trains.com Staff Writer Lucas Iverson as he reviews the Lionel Legacy O gauge (1:48) USRA 2-8-2 Heavy Mikado Soo Line No. 1003 , featuring video of the model operating on the Milwaukee Lionel RR ...

British startup Steamology has secured a contract to test its hydrogen-fueled steam traction system in a converted Freightliner Group (a Genesee & Wyoming subsidiary) freight locomotive. Funded ...

The tour schedule for the western leg of Big Boy's historic coast-to-coast tour was announced Monday. The world's largest locomotive, which weighs ...

With plumes of smoke billowing into the sky, the world’s largest steam locomotive left Wisconsin on Friday morning, bound for an afternoon stop in West Chicago. Back on the rails for the first time in ...

running on tracks, there was the Lombard Steam Log Hauler. This wacky steam-locomotive-like contraption used tank-style tracks instead of railroad tracks to get around, freeing it up to go wherever it ...