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 ...

Compressed-air tech fuels hopes of resurrecting steam engines

Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.
KTRE

Pineland locomotive team works to restore nearly 100-year-old steam engine

SABINE COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - A Deep East Texas group is on a mission to preserve and relocate a nearly 100-year-old specialized train car. “It’s really important to see how we got where we are,” said ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph

East Texas group is restoring steam locomotive in Rusk, preserving the region’s timber industry history

About four years ago, Keith Bass and Aaron McCreight took a trip to Southern Louisiana to buy a tractor. As any mechanically ...
The Denver Post

“Big Boy” steam locomotive makes post-restoration debut

CHEYENNE — It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive rolled ...
CNN

After nearly 60 years off the tracks, the world’s largest steam locomotive roars

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 ...