What's the best way to go fast? If you ask around at the Bonneville land-speed races, you'll get as many different answers as there are grains of salt beneath the wheels of a push truck. Land-speed ...

SPENCER — The cab count for the Streamliners at Spencer railroading festival has hit 25 with the announcement of the final locomotive to appear during the four-day event. The Erie No. 833 E8 marks the ...

On the morning of May 26, 1934, a shimmering silver locomotive pulled out of Denver's Union Station bound for Chicago. The Zephyr was unlike any train seen before. Powered by a revolutionary compact ...

SPENCER — The N.C. Transportation Museum’s upcoming Streamliners at Spencer event will host one of the rarest and most sought after diesel locomotives in existence. The American Locomotive Company ...

Streamliners caused a stir throughout the U.S. when they made their debut in the 1930s. These trains had a smooth, sleek design. But they didn’t just look neat; they were fast, some of them reaching ...

As a child, I loved trains: Lionel toy trains, Amtrak trains, the small-gauge ride-on train at a nearby park that I named Engie Benji. My family vacationed in Strasburg, Pa., stayed at the Red Caboose ...