On Aug. 22, 1945, Canadian Pacific Railway Engine 374 made its last run into Vancouver. Like its first run here six decades earlier, it caused a big stir. Engine 374 had brought the first ...

The first locomotive to successfully use an AC (alternating current) three-phase asynchronous traction motor drive system was the German DE2500 diesel-electric in 1971, built by Henschel-BBC. DB ...

Editor's note: Last month, as part of The Record's "Where History Lives" series, Peter Willott wrote about the mystery of the Florida Southwestern Railway and the two brothers, Fred and Floyd Perry, ...