Looking to escape? Here are two recent trips local readers took to Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic. Check them out, then find more reader travel ...

DEUTSCHE BAHN has only four enemies, runs the gag: spring, summer, autumn and winter. German trains did once run on time. But these days moaning about the risible performance of the state-owned rail ...

Tickets for the Essex Steam Train North Pole Express are on sale now. The train ride offers a “magical nighttime journey to the North Pole” where children and families can celebrate the spirit of the ...

A nostalgic holiday is on offer from June 4th to 12th next year, when Belle Trains, which operates holidays in Europe by steam train, runs The Alpine Belle on a nine-day tour through Germany and the ...

It's just starting to feel like fall, but Halloween events will come around before you know it! The Essex Steam Train & Riverboat announced a new Halloween event called "Tracks of Terror" that will ...

The recycled-content metals producer says a new steam accumulator system in Lünen, Germany, will reduce CO2 emissions by some 5,000 tons annually. Left to right: Verena von Weiss, plant manager at ...

Defeated and depleted of military technology after World War I, Germany adopted the highly controversial “Plan Z” in 1939. Launched shortly before the start of World War II, the project could have ...

Germany’s railways are in crisis. Trains run late, tracks crumble and management looks away. Rail expert Christian Böttger explains how the state-owned enterprise got so offtrack – and why billions ...

On a sliver of land in Jefferson Parish, between packed parking lots and near a helicopter landing pad, sits a bygone mode of transportation: a steam engine. The hulking Southern Pacific engine No.