Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten ...

BOYERTOWN, Pa. — Something's been missing from the Colebrookdale Railroad. In its future now lies a gift from the past. "If you think about Pennsylvania's golden era, there really is no machine that ...

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An atmospheric steam and diesel ‘Winter Warm Up’ weekend is to be the first special event in the Swanage Railway’s special ...

A steam locomotive has made its first official appearance following a 10-year restoration project by volunteers. The 1960 loco, a class 62 engine from the former Yugoslavia, was brought to the UK in ...

Israeli researchers are working to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by speeding up the natural weathering process by which rain dissolves rock. In nature, rain absorbs CO2 from the ...

The locomotive in Pioneer Park is Thunder Lake Lumber Company No. 5, better known as the 5 Spot, and this year it turned 100 ...

Pennsylvania short line North Shore Railroad has unveiled a commemorative locomotive honoring the U.S. semiquincentennial.

When the locomotives met, their boilers exploded almost simultaneously, hurling metal fragments and debris high into the air.

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