Huge crowds of train fans turn out as the 1940s era Big Boy steam locomotive is making a rare trip cross country.

ALTOONA, Pennsylvania — In Virginia Lee Burton’s classic children’s book, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, Mulligan often boasted that his steam shovel, Mary Anne, “could dig as much in a day as a ...

Gripping his mother’s hand on a cold, rainy New Year’s weekday in 1942, the six-year-old boy waved at his hero as the steam ...

The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is drawing crowds on its cross-country trip to celebrate the ...