Vancouver’s BNSF railyard has a venerable visitor for the next few days: a working steam locomotive. The Southern Pacific 4449 arrived at midday Monday for a few days of video production work, which ...

You can’t keep a good locomotive down—especially when it has the momentum of history behind it. No matter how many times they’ve been repainted for how many purposes, retired and then rehired, ...

Train buffs lined the tracks Sunday in Kalamazoo as the Southern Pacific 4449 steam locomotive passed through town. The locomotive made an unscheduled stop for about 5 minutes at the train station in ...

Chuffing, hissing and moaning, steam engines are like mythic creatures — dragonlike spectacles that draw a crowd wherever they go. But in October 1956, the era of daily steam engines was ending in San ...