What do "The Avengers," "Transformers," and "Terminator Salvation" have in common? They all filmed at the abandoned steam locomotive repair shops in Albuquerque, N.M. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser ...

Book of the week From about 1880 to 1955 – the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's steam locomotive repair shops were a dominant industrial presence and driving economic force in Albuquerque. A ...

The Timber Heritage Museum last month signed a $400,000 contract to restore an old steam locomotive it hopes will be the main attraction to a proposed Humboldt Bay tourist train. The agreement with ...

Although Rock Island passenger trains first came through Oelwein in 1877, the company that earned Oelwein its nickname as the Hub City was the Chicago Great Western, which was founded in 1892. The CGW ...

Union Pacific Railroad has closed its longtime locomotive repair shop in El Paso and laid off workers as part of the company's nationwide streamlining plan. Union Pacific on Nov. 26 laid off 191 ...

A newly repaired steam locomotive leaves the factory. I am a steam locomotive lover. As these giants "retired" from the railways in our country in 2005, I only get to see them in a museum in my ...