On Sunday, Oct. 21, 1957, the fires in the last steam locomotives assigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Northumberland roundhouse were allowed to die, bringing to a close an era that had begun more ...

THE paper on the trend of the design of electric locomotives during the last ten years, read to the Institution of Electrical Engineers by C. E. Fairburn, the electrical engineer to the L.M.S. railway ...

NEXRAIL, a Luxembourg firm, has signed an agreement with Stadler for the delivery of up to 200 EURO9000 panto-battery hybrid locomotives.

Amtrak is retiring the AEM-7 electric locomotives that have carried passengers along the Northeast Corridor for 37 years. The trains have traveled more than 220 million miles between Washington, D.C., ...