The AC-9 articulated steamers were another very important historical steam engine that should have been saved by Southern ...

The new trains, pulled by the world’s most powerful streamlined steam locomotives, feature a color scheme of wide black, orange and red stripes sweeping their entire length.

But the queen of all Norfolk and Western Railway’s steam locomotives — the streamlined 611 — will be running weekend excursions between Goshen and Staunton from October 6 to November 5. And that ...

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

Originally good for 120 mph -- on par with the fastest streamlined steam locomotives -- the Schienenzeppelin topped out at a magnificent 140 mph in the summer of 1931.

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History buffs, rail fans, and leaf peepers will have a chance to experience a Virginia icon in the picturesque Shenandoah ...

An iconic locomotive is stationed at the Strasburg Rail Road for the summer season.The Norfolk & Western Railway Class J 611 locomotive is known as a powerhouse of steam, technology and near ...

He said center organizers have plans to become more like a museum. The Southern Pacific 4449 is considered one of the best operable “streamlined” steam locomotives of the Art Deco era.

After all, Strasburg Rail Road was home to No. 475, another Norfolk & Western locomotive about 50 years older than the streamlined 611.