The USRA was born under a unique confluence of circumstances. Prior even to American involvement in the First World War, the ...

The steam locomotive that hides in the museum witnesses the developing history of world railway, civilization of industrial revolution and at the same time, it also records the brilliant course ...

Pennsylvania Railroad T1 technology. A slippery story of poppet valves, streamlining, and a possible world speed record.

This steam locomotive is a member of the Princess Coronation Class, designed by Sir William Stanier and built at Crewe in 1938. 6233 'Duchess of Sutherland' worked express passenger train services ...

Locomotive 1077 is a steam locomotive built in 1923, and now lives at Fort Steele National Historic Site. The Steam train operated in the logging industry until it was retired in 1960, as Canada's ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them ...

Steve Oates, chief executive of the Heritage Railway Association, said: "The whistle-up is a great chance for everyone ...

The first steam powered vehicle to run on a British road. Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the ...

The locomotive managed to haul ten tons of iron, and seventy passengers - proof that a steam engine could run ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors ...

A timeless piece of history will be on display for the public to see just how far into the future the power of steam carried ...

Instead, this is a steam turbine ... re not sure it would need one. Prototype locomotives featuring new technologies have a long and inglorious history of not making the grade, so while this ...