When the locomotives met, their boilers exploded almost simultaneously, hurling metal fragments and debris high into the air.

They made it possible to move people and goods further and faster than ever before, and helped catapult humanity into the industrial revolution. But by the 1940s, they were showing their age, and a ...

FRENCHTOWN – This is a story of railroad passions. It starts in 1910 with a fatal train wreck west of Alberton, and again in 1973, when Bill O’Neill spotted the locomotive’s boiler plate in the Clark ...