The Oregon Rail Heritage Center got a present just before its 10th birthday — a historic logging steam locomotive. The Oregon Historical Society gifted the center the Mount Emily Shay, a locomotive ...

The mountain-climbing Climax locomotive featured in this column Nov. 1 had indeed been a part of Louis Carr’s logging operation in the Pisgah Forest, but it was misidentified as a Class A Climax. It ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The historic steam logging locomotive Mount Emily Shay #1 traveled by BNSF Railway on a flatcar from its former home on the City of Prineville Railway to its new home at the ...

Locomotives have a fascinating history. They were one of the first methods to mass transport goods from one place to another, and while the first railroads used horses to pull carts along the tracks, ...

Take a trip back in time and see what life was like when timber and trains were the center of Pacific Northwest industry. The Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad offers a glimpse of the past with nine logging ...

Restoration continues and a new place for display has been secured for the locomotive that for many years was located next to the Scotia Museum. Once fully restored, Locomotive No. 9 will be displayed ...

HARBOR SPRINGS, MICH. -- A historic locomotive has been relocated from Texas to Northern Michigan, where it will give residents and visitors a more complete picture of the impact its inventor had on ...

When the Kinks' Ray Davies penned the tune "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains," the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at the ...

A small group in the foothills of Mount Rainier has been tasked since the 1980s with running a tourist railroad there. It also has a larger goal of preserving some part of the logging era that helped ...

In the January 1949 issue, Popular Mechanics witnessed the end of the steam locomotive era as the American Locomotive Company, in its 100th year of operation (when combined with the history of its pre ...