This latter rule embraces the multiplying of the speed in miles per hour ... nature from that of a stationary steam engine. The efficient horse power of a locomotive may be very small, while ...

In the middle of the last century, as the industry moved away from steam traction though ... for moving them at high speed. By 1950 the general form of a diesel locomotive with a frame containing ...

Which is faster—the steam or electric locomotive? On the face of the latest returns, the “juice” seems to have it. At Erie, Pa., last week a speed of 105 miles an hour was attained over a ...

Mallard broke the world speed record for steam in 1938 at 126mph (203km/h) near Grantham, Lincolnshire The world's fastest steam locomotive has been moved onto the tracks at York station for the ...

The solution was a tried-and-true method from past steam locomotive designs ... "making it bigger" returned with an emphasis on more speed and power. By adopting the practice from the Mikado ...

PICTURE: The Sir Nigel Gresley, which holds the British post-war steam speed record of 112mph, and sister locomotive to the famous Mallard.

Now living in a care home in Knaresborough, Mr Lowther was taken to visit the A4 Pacific locomotive at the National Railway Museum in York. Mallard still holds the world steam speed record of ...

The apparatus to be fitted to the locomotive to admit of working counter-pressure steam as a brake ... in order to maintain a uniform speed on lines with many changes of gradient, or for stopping ...