CORRY — A steam locomotive made in Corry more than a century ago is on its way home from Alaska. A Climax A engine that chugged supplies to prospectors during a turn-of-the-20th-century Alaskan gold ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania, are on strike, asking for familiar items like ...

The Contagem plant pioneers moving assembly for locomotives. Credit: General Electric. GE Transportation has unveiled a new approach to manufacturing rail locomotives with the deployment of a ...

CARBONDALE — He started as a mule driver for the Delaware & Hudson (D&H) Canal Company, and would one day be making steam locomotives. Thomas Dickson, of Carbondale, Pa., his brothers and their father ...

More than 700 employees attended a ceremony to mark the rollout of the 1,000th locomotive from the GE Manufacturing Solutions plant in Fort Worth, Tex., on July 7, three-and-a-half years after the ...

OGDEN — A legendary locomotive made its return to Ogden this weekend. Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 made a weekend stop that drew thousands of visitors of all ages to Union Station from its arrival ...

The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...

In the late 1800s, most factories in South Bend and Mishawaka relocated to move closer to rail lines. They constructed plant buildings along new railroad tracks that came from the East Coast and went ...

Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania, are on strike, asking for familiar items like better pay, voting rights, and health care benefits. They’re also asking for one unique condition: to shift their ...