Steam locomotives are the closest thing humans have created to a living ‘thing’. They require finesse and careful attention to get the best out of them, need to be warmed up gently and then disposed ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Union Pacific’s Big Boy has moved on for now, but Northeast Ohio’s summer of steam is not over. Less than three weeks after the world’s largest operating steam locomotive rolled ...

A train pulls out of Shangrao station, where the author changed trains on his way to the city of Chongqing. As I rocketed out of Shanghai aboard a train at nearly 200 miles an hour, the speed reduced ...