Few things resonate sweeter than a solid father-son relationship. That’s especially true when sons proudly follow in their father’s footsteps. For locomotive engineer Robert Burkhardt, that ...

Longtime Louisville & Nashville Railroad employee Charles Castner died last month at the age of 97. He co-wrote a book in ...

There aren’t many speed records that remain unbroken for the greater part of a century, but one of them is that of the fastest steam locomotive. As with so many such things, there’s a ...

For more than 70 years, misty mornings in the East Bay hills have been filled with uncanny sights and sounds for this day and age: hissing steam and echoing whistles, as small-yet-mighty locomotives ...

The Redwood Valley Railway and East Bay Regional Park District may be getting closer to an agreement about the Tilden steam train contract.

Locomotive engineers at Union Pacific voted to ratify a new five-year contract with the railroad operator, the BLET-Teamsters union said on Friday. Under the new contract, nearly 6,000 members ...