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The American Steam Railroad Preservation Association’s restoration of Reading Co. T-1 No. 2100 has reached a major milestone ...
Virginia Department of Historic Resources announced last week that the Norfolk & Western Class “A” No. 1218 steam engine – ...
There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few ...
North Yorkshire Moors Railway will welcome a legendary steam locomotive to the tracks next month. Railway enthusiasts and families will be able to see the No. 45596 Bahamas for a special visit ...
Hy-polite Uhry, and Henry A. Luttgens, both of Patterson, N. J., for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive engines for the purpose of improving the working of steam in cylinders ...
NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are testing replacing environmentally unfriendly power sources for the trains to help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
The wet steam, on the water issuing from the boiler, gives this minimum proportion. The apparatus to be fitted to the locomotive to admit of working counter-pressure steam as a brake, is as simple ...
The 20th-century idea of an “American Dream” – where a sizable majority of people in the US could become or aspire to become middle-class, affluent or even extremely wealthy – is mostly ...
ALRESFORD, England, March 19 (Reuters) - The 'Canadian Pacific', a 1940s steam train that took soldiers ... a big smile as he stood next to the green locomotive. The train was named after the ...
and Avonside locomotive ‘Dora’, the last standard-gauge steam engine to work in a British quarry. ‘Dora’ also holds a sentimental connection to K&WVR, having been briefly based there in ...
The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway has announced that 76077 is to visit them for their Cotswold Festival of Steam. The locomotive is undergoing restoration from scrapyard condition at Locomotive ...
Following its previous update in December, the Fairbourne Railway in Wales has issued a further update on the overhaul of steam locomotive Beddgelert. The Railway, which is on the west coast of Wales, ...