Editor's note: Last month, as part of The Record's "Where History Lives" series, Peter Willott wrote about the mystery of the Florida Southwestern Railway and the two brothers, Fred and Floyd Perry, ...
For years now, Bob Nawrocki has been trying to get to the bottom of a mystery that dates back to 1954. The story begins with two brothers, Fred and Floyd Perry, who dreamed of becoming railroad ...
On Aug. 22, 1945, Canadian Pacific Railway Engine 374 made its last run into Vancouver. Like its first run here six decades earlier, it caused a big stir. Engine 374 had brought the first ...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was and is one of the most celebrated engineers ever to have lived. There's a London university named after him, statues commemorating him across the UK, and many of the ...
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, ...
Publicity photo of a first-generation Union Pacific GTEL locomotive and a circa-1923 electric auto in Fremont, Neb. The auto was owned by a local woman and the locomotive was on its way west to haul ...
FROM THE EDITOR, RAILWAY AGE, NOVEMBER 2023 ISSUE: Congratulations to Class III Iowa Traction Railway (IATR) for receiving the inaugural National Railway Historical Society, Railway Age and Railway ...
A historic steam engine with decades of history was left without a home when it was forced to leave Swindon - here's what happened to it since.