The inspiration for the film’s North Pole also has ties to the American railroad through famed inventor and businessman George Pullman. Pullman was the creator of the Pullman Palace Car Company, which ...

Will it pull?" is a question that has been frequently asked while the big electric locomotive for the Belt Railroad was untried. Thursday an informal test of this 100-ton machine was made.

The iconic Flying Scotsman steam train first entered service 100 years ago today. It broke records by hauling the first non-stop London to Edinburgh service in 1928 and became the UK's first ...

The A3 Gresley Pacific - the first locomotive to acquire the Flying Scotsman service name for itself - steamed ... directions that had been running between London and Edinburgh since 1862 - was truly ...