Of the three main types, the grand total of geared steam locomotives built in the U.S. topped out at around 4,500. Despite ...

This weekend it’s all aboard at the Electric City Trolley Museum for the Garden Railway Society’s 26th annual Winter ...

A new children's book called Wrong Tracks centres on Edward Entwistle, a Lancashire lad from Tyldesley who drove the Rocket.

In 1979, while working on a documentary about steam trains ... the lives of hardworking trains with big personalities, including a chipper blue locomotive named Thomas. Allcroft pitched Awdry ...

"You had a clear segmentation of who was doing the construction of the railroads versus who was an engineer in a locomotive or who ... boiler equipment released steam scalding enough to cause ...

leaving just a scent of soot and a trail of steam behind. At a time when the roads were still littered with horse-drawn carts, LNER locomotive 4468 Mallard must have seemed like a spaceship.

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the dangerous workplaces.

"There's a lot of excitement," Andy Spinelli, president of the museum, said this week. "We still have a lot of work to do, but it’s huge and monumental." ...

"Tornado", the fastest steam engine to run since the 1960s, is owned by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust. It made headlines in 2008 as it steamed for the first time, and notably reached 100mph on a ...

The improvement in the application of counter-pressure steam which gave rise to the ... from the boiler into the cylinders of a locomotive engine, it must be b0rne in mind that it is not water ...