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 ...

Explore an overview of Steamtown USA and its journey from one man’s vision to a national historic site in Scranton ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...