Norfolk & Western's "Big Three" steam locomotives represent the apex and final work in the railroad’s steam era.

The locomotives are watered and restocked with coal every day, their pistons and bolts oiled at the start of each 12-hour shift, and their furnaces emptied of coal ash after each trip.

There are just a couple days left to ride the last coal-fired steam locomotive at the Milwaukee County Zoo—one of the days being this coming Saturday, Sept. 14. Partly for environmental reasons ...

A long way from its old home in a Pennsylvania coal pit, a steam locomotive affectionately named ‘Sadie’ advances along an Oklahoma sidetrack on a sunny spring morning.

Coal would be transferred by gravity down a chute that put the coal into the steam locomotive tender, according to Patrick Allen, president of the Central of Georgia Railway Historical Society.

Carrying coal from the Sandaoling mine, Hami City, the 11 steam locomotives are some of the last running in the country. The coal mine is to shut down within two years, so the train drivers are ...

The underground coal bins extended beyond the foundation’s edge below the Hyman Street sidewalk. Large plates of steel covered their tops. When it was time for a coal delivery the plates would be ...

This past week, the Minot Rotary Club held a rededication to thank community partners for the recent refurbishment of Soo Line steam locomotive No. 735 at Roosevelt Park Zoo.