SPENCER — The rail enthusiast looks at the Class J 611 steam locomotive, and he sees power, majesty, engineering, the bullet nose, the Tuscan red stripe, the giant wheels, the gleaming rods and the ...

The Botetourt County Board of Supervisors has approved the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) budget, without raising tax rates. Read full article: State of emergency declared as winter weather expected to ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...

STAUNTON, Va. (WDBJ) - A partnership between the Virginia Scenic Railway, The Virginia Museum of Transportation, Inc., the Steam Railroading Institute and the Virginia Mechanical Preservation Society ...

Lancaster County railfans will have opportunities to see, ride and even fire up a rare steam locomotive across four weekends in Strasburg this fall. The Norfolk & Western Class J 611 steam passenger ...

The Reading & Northern Railroad announced this week that T-1 class steam locomotive 2102 will lead four ‘Iron Horse Rambles’ starting in May. Built in 1945 by the Reading Company at their shops in ...

(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 ...

It may not be a bullet train, but a steam locomotive made history this week as it became the first steam-driven train clocking 100 mph (161 km/h) on a British mainline track in over 50 years. On ...

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

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them that ...