If it was still running, the P-1 would probably be among the oldest locomotives in service today. But instead, Erie scrapped all three by 1933. The most powerful steam locomotive is indeed an ...

What might be more surprising, however, is that the most powerful steam engine in the world is also one of the oldest locomotives in service and was constructed all the way back in the early 1940s.

These French engines, although very much more powerful in starting effort than the Belgian locomotives, are of the same weight, loaded and empty, as the latter, but the boilers of the Nord engines ...

The 'Duchess' and other members of her class were the most powerful passenger steam locomotives working on the British railway network during the 1930s. After being withdrawn for scrap in 1964 ...

HEIDENHEIM - A total of 240 electric goods locomotives of the Chinese manufacturer DLoco will be fitted with Voith final drives and transmission components by the end of 2007. The six-axle goods ...

Union Pacific's 8500-series Gas Turbine Electric Locomotives earned two nicknames: UP dubbed them the "Super Fleet" for obvious reasons as they were the largest, most powerful locomotives ever ...