The introduction of several advanced, efficient, and more robust power options over the years has largely overshadowed steam ...

This family holiday favorite has its roots in the history of the American railroad Lauren Degener, Social Media Manager & Web Content Manager, B&O Railroad Museum Every holiday season, The Polar ...

Meet the machine that changed the course of American history! Today, we’re firing up the boiler and riding the rails through the last two centuries at The Henry Ford, exploring how a steam locomotive ...

The Santa Fe 2926 rolled down the tracks under its own steam power after an ambitious 20-year volunteer-run restoration. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for ...

If you ever manage to take a peek inside the train operator's compartment on the subway, the whole operation might strike you as kind of simple. There aren't a whole lot of controls to work with. But ...

They might be outdated, but their mechanism is still mesmerizing, and there’s something nostalgic about watching and hearing a steam locomotive. It’s not something an electric motor can give you, ever ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them that ...

Steam has returned to the Stewartstown Railroad for the first time in 83 years, giving a young trainman an opportunity to experience and learn how his ancestors mastered transportation without ...

ALAMOSA, Colo. — Engine 169 is “the little engine that could.” Ruth Heide, Valley Courier via AP In this Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, photograph, Jim Poston, a member of the Locomotive 169/Business Car B-1 ...

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