The locomotive had just been unhooked from the El Capitan passenger train from Chicago at 8:45 a.m. on Jan. 25, 1948, when the accident occurred. This image of the unlucky locomotive became the lead ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Wichita’s Great Plains Transportation Museum (GPTM) is kicking off a fundraising effort to perform a full cosmetic restoration of historic Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric ...

A Santa Fe civic organization dedicated to preserving history has restored a long-retired steam locomotive that once ferried soldiers to war and later served as a historic artifact for those visiting ...

In 1931-32, Chief Mechanical Engineer Charles T. Ripley applied his European experience, along with his work on steam motorcar M-104 back in 1911, as he worked with Winton Engine Manufacturing Co., ...

Sep. 30—The journey for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 2926 is getting closer to riding the rails. The AT&SF 2926 was built in May 1944 and ran a million miles in the American Southwest before ...

Visionary executive William Barstow Strong led the second transcontinental line, the Santa Fe, in the 1880s, paving the way for thousands of miles of track. Illustration by Matthew Richardson When the ...

The loud choo choo and clanging of Santa Fe steam locomotive 2926 filled the air as it pulled in at Tractor Brewing Company on Fourth Street in Albuquerque on Saturday morning. Children excitedly blew ...

A bit of railroad history rolled through San Clemente on Sunday. For a day, Santa Fe Locomotive 3751, said to have pulled the last steam passenger train between Los Angeles and San Diego in August, ...