Little River Railroad's Terry Bloom said after 50 years of steam engine train rides, ... The trips in Indiana lasted 17 years until the nonprofit moved to White Pigeon in St. Joseph County, ...

The latest is called the Black Pearl, and it is a motorcycle styled after an old steam-powered locomotive. It's not just a pretty shell, however; the Black Pearl is powered by a literal steam engine.

Big Boy generates tremendous puffs of thick black smoke and white steam as he puffs along the tracks. He also produces impressive quantities of charming reactions from awed observers.

Backtracking to the Age of Steam Engines. By ABC News. ... time and distance. Union Pacific 3985 is 121 feet long, painted in locomotive black, weighs close to 500 tons and is rated for 70 mph.

Orestes Sparks, 74, grew up along the tracks of the New Jersey Central railroad. Trains with 300 freight cars would pass his house, carrying coal and heavy equipment into New York City. “(The… ...