The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten Mallard’s speed record while no one was looking… and being in production ...

The history of steam locomotives is not merely about locomotives and transportation, but rather a strong echo of the human aspiration and engineering genius. When sleek bullet trains and magnetic ...

The LNER Mallard was built in the 1930s as Britain’s answer to Germany’s record breaking steam locomotives, which had become ...

There aren’t many speed records that remain unbroken for the greater part of a century, but one of them is that of the fastest steam locomotive. As with so many such things, there’s a bit of ...