Although Rock Island passenger trains first came through Oelwein in 1877, the company that earned Oelwein its nickname as the Hub City was the Chicago Great Western, which was founded in 1892. The CGW ...

America’s railroads are under pressure to reduce the tons of pollution their locomotives spew daily and to cut their fuel expenses as well. Can they do it? With the help of the “Green Goat” and ...

The locomotive shops here assumed all engine works of the division and the car shops at once began installation of safety appliances in compliance with federal regulations. The so-called “safety” ...

The peeling, rusty locomotive sitting along Warwick Boulevard in Huntington Park finally will get its facelift this fall. City crews will remove the asbestos that insulates portions of the Chesapeake ...

Owing to substantial investment by government in imported railway locomotives in recent years, as well as its goal to prioritise localisation, heavy diesel engine and component remanu- facturer Metric ...

Book of the week From about 1880 to 1955 – the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's steam locomotive repair shops were a dominant industrial presence and driving economic force in Albuquerque. A ...