Another simple and inexpensive kit that works well as a team project is the Exploring Kid Steam Engine Kit, which also retails for $29.99.This mostly plastic kit, when assembled, includes a boiler ...

The problem with these engines is the fact that many of them were sold as rough casting kits. ... This takes me right back to 1973 when Santa brought my 10 year old self a real working steam engine!

Though advanced steam technology has impacted many industries, the one that it affected the most was railways. Several modern locomotives that ran on steam engines kept getting better with time ...

CHARLES CITY — Jason Skillen of Greene pointed to a huge configuration of iron wheel, cylinders and pistons housed in a metal building on the grounds of the Cedar Valley ...

The world’s largest functioning triple-expansion steam engine is an unbelievably massive beast of a machine. For 77 years, the 62-foot-high engine—weighing in at 1,000 tons!—powered gigantic ...