Reading Company steam locomotives were being put out to pasture by new diesel locomotives in the early 1950s. This fireman ...

Many kids (and adults) are fascinated by trains and we’re on board too! Trains are complex engineering marvels on a massive ...

Some early steam cars worked well, and some did not. Some were fire pumpers that moved by themselves, and others were small locomotives with road wheels. Beginning in the 1880s, inventors tried very ...

Ripley applied his European experience, along with his work on steam motorcar M-104 back in ... but it did show that a high-speed locomotive could be successfully based on an internal-combustion ...

The film below the break is a fascinating window into the early part of the UK’s transitional period away from steam traction, with the locomotive we know now to have been a dead-end being ...

H. Smith, recalls: "I never knew what word he passed down the line, but it seemed to me that he gave me 2,300 miles of track, 450 steam locomotives and all the employees of the N&W to help me get ...

As a result, the 765 was placed in storage inside the East Wayne engine house in New Haven, Indiana, until the early 1960s when it was selected ... the 765 is one of the most active historic steam ...

Some early steam cars worked well, and some did not. Some were fire pumpers that moved by themselves, and others were small locomotives with road wheels. Beginning in the 1880s, inventors tried very ...