Compared to their traditional reciprocating rod-driven counterparts, geared steam locomotives can be seen as “oddballs” to ...

Now, one of the locomotives used to pull that train is undergoing a massive restoration at the B&O Railroad Museum.

American Flyer’s No. 303 Reading Lines 4-4-2 Atlantic steam engine and tender helped to inspire a young boy growing up near ...

The Highline Express will return for the 2025 summer season at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad!

With the injection of an excess of steam—a system which I characterized as an inverted steam engine—more satisfactory ... speed in the descent of goods trains on gradients of 1 in 260.

There are steam locomotives, and then there’s “Big Boy.” At 604 tons and 132 feet long and with a 4-8-8-4-wheel arrangement, it is the largest, most powerful steam locomotive in the world.

and unexpectedly provide engine upgrades for existing classes. The fact it’s technically a steam locomotive is incidental.

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 ...

Around 100 years ago, many Americans got their entertainment from watching two steam engines crash into each other.

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (WJW) — A train ... back its Steam in the Valley event, featuring the Nickel Plate Road steam locomotive 765, one of the only fully operational mainline steam engines on ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are testing replacing environmentally unfriendly power sources for the trains to ... the steam locomotive engine’s fire, which ...