On 1 July 1925, the oldest railway in the world celebrated its 100th birthday. The Stockton to Darlington Railway was the ...

Locomotion’ set for Greatest Gathering Locomotion No. 1, the first steam locomotive to operate on a public railway, has been ...

A railfan remembers encounters with the familiar 4-6-4 Hudson steam locomotive type on multiple railroads around the Great Lakes ...

LAWRENCE — When the Kinks’ Ray Davies penned the tune “Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,” the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a ...

Similarly, the inventions of André Chapelon and Livion Dante Porta propelled the modern steam locomotives in the late 1940s and '50s. Advanced steam technology is not a single mechanism ...

Shenyang steam locomotive museum has been built by Shenyang Railway Branch Bureau and Shenyang Botanical Garden, based on original Shenyang Railway steam Museum hides 15historical locomotives and ...

H. Smith, recalls: "I never knew what word he passed down the line, but it seemed to me that he gave me 2,300 miles of track, 450 steam locomotives and all the employees of the N&W to help me get ...