The route that Royal Hudson Engine No. 2839 took to the Lehigh Valley has been a long, strange trip, beginning more than 60 years ago in Canada when the high-powered locomotive took passengers on the ...

Imposing, powerful and elegant. No wonder some railroad buffs consider the Royal Hudsons among the most handsome locomotives ever built. Summer visitors to the west coast of mainland British Columbia ...

When steam engines ruled the rails 100 years ago, the art of running the iron horse was passed from father to son. So when Bob Daumer agreed to help restore a 1937 Royal Hudson steam engine brought to ...

Royal Hudson No. 2839 had a short but highly promoted run as an excursion engine in Western North Carolina in 1979 and 1980. It was a 4-6-4 design, which suited it for speed over flat distances more ...

ABOARD THE ROYAL HUDSON, Howe Sound, British Columbia – Imposing, powerful and elegant: That’s the only way to describe a Royal Hudson steam locomotive. No wonder some railroad buffs consider the ...

Train travel was popular for most of the last century. The rise of the car, freeways, affordable air travel and an increasingly fast-paced world changed all that. Now, trains tend to attract either ...