From the 1870s through the 1950's, steam locomotives pulled long trains through the mountains of West Virginia, trailing plumes of gray smoke. After most of the coal was mined, and the more efficient ...

In the late 1950s, photographer O. Winston Link decided to document the end of an era -- capturing steam trains in pictures and sound recordings. Using an 80-pound tape recorder hooked up to a ...

They might be outdated, but their mechanism is still mesmerizing, and there’s something nostalgic about watching and hearing a steam locomotive. It’s not something an electric motor can give you, ever ...

The North Pole Express will continue to run, but the train will be pulled by the institute’s historic diesel locomotive until ...

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Click here if you’re unable to view the photo gallery on your mobile device. The unmistakable sound of Redwood Valley Railway’s steam trains will reverberate through the Berkeley hills this weekend ...

As travelers filled the Laramie Railroad Depot platforms recently, a sharp whistle sounded the arrival of a historic steam train that over the next few weeks is traveling from Wyoming to Tacoma. Along ...

Standing between two cars of the steam train, James Cantor leaned out the window, clutching a large microphone in one hand. “It’s music to my ears,” said the 22-year-old Richboro, Bucks County, ...

John Lasseter is talking about trains; and for the entire conversation, he sounds like a kid again. The artistic catalyst for Pixar Animation Studio, who directed “Toy Story” and “Cars” and is now the ...

Life is full of wonderful occupational prospects when you're 6 or 7: professional Wiffle ball player or coloring-book artist, designer of Jetsons-style flying cars and, best of all, steam-locomotive ...

Some Durango-area residents say the train whistle is louder this summer compared with previous years, but the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad says the historic sound is unchanged. Durango ...