LAWRENCE — When the Kinks’ Ray Davies penned the tune “Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,” the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at ...

Locomotives have a fascinating history. They were one of the first methods to mass transport goods from one place to another, and while the first railroads used horses to pull carts along the tracks, ...

A crew used two cranes to lift a 160,000-pound Whitcomb diesel locomotive Tuesday at the Lehigh Cement plant in preparation for shipment to a Dutch Railroad Museum.

An old locomotive is on its way from northern Iowa to a new European home at a museum in the Netherlands. The Dutch Railway Museum had been searching for a World War II-era Whitcomb diesel locomotive ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam ...