For the past four decades, former Norfolk & Western and Southern Pacific locomotive engineer Doyle McCormack has coddled the most familiar steam locomotive operating in North America. Now, Chief ...

Portland’s oft-photographed steam locomotive will be back in action Saturday and Sunday, and can be seen in Clark County on four occasions. The SP4449 will pull a train of 12 vintage passenger cars ...

The SP 4449 steam locomotive takes Amtrak's Empire Builder route through Columbia County on Aug. 3, 2009. At first scheduled to stop in Portage for servicing, it instead continued to Wisconsin Dells.

PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — The annual Holiday Express train rides are about ready to go, thanks to the work by the volunteers at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland. The ...

Vancouver’s BNSF railyard has a venerable visitor for the next few days: a working steam locomotive. The Southern Pacific 4449 arrived at midday Monday for a few days of video production work, which ...

The retired osteopath's obsession — combined with solid mechanical skills, a background in medicine and a hearty sense of history and heritage — have come together to let him participate in the ...

FARGO Fargo's rails will take a step back in the past this week when a steam locomotive rolls through town. The Southern Pacific Daylight No. 4449 will make a stop in Fargo today and Thursday during ...

Train buffs lined the tracks Sunday in Kalamazoo as the Southern Pacific 4449 steam locomotive passed through town. The locomotive made an unscheduled stop for about 5 minutes at the train station in ...

The 443 ton, 110-foot-long, 5,500 horsepower steam locomotive is an altogether breathtaking sight. I was invited to check out the train's preparation this afternoon at the roundhouse nestled deep ...

A crowd of more than 50 people gathered at the Wisconsin Dells Amtrak station Monday morning to see something they may never see here again. Just before 11:15 a.m., Southern Pacific Railroad’s ...

Chuffing, hissing and moaning, steam engines are like mythic creatures — dragonlike spectacles that draw a crowd wherever they go. But in October 1956, the era of daily steam engines was ending in San ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — The annual Holiday Express steam locomotive rides begin again Friday, Nov. 26, after a one-year delay prompted by COVID-19 restrictions. The round trips from the ...