News

This video features a rare Live Steam model train produced by the English company "BOWMAN" around 1932. The last time the ...
An industrial steam engine found in a convent has started a new chapter on the coast. The 1929 locomotive, called "Newstead", ...
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 paleontologist at the ...
It may not be a bullet train, but a steam locomotive made history this week as it became the first steam-driven train clocking 100 mph (161 km/h) on a British mainline track in over 50 years. On ...
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 paleontologist, the ...
The proposal, forwarded by the Sports, Culture, Tourism, Youth Affairs/Archaeology & Museums department, points towards two locomotives dating back to the early 1900’s when steam engines were ...
The Steamtown museum is home to an eclectic collection of steam locomotives assembled in the 1950s and 1960s by F. Nelson Blount, a New England seafood magnate and train buff. Jim Landers / KRT ...
The Milwaukee County Zoo's popular zoo train will undergo some changes this year. The train's two steam locomotive engines will leave the zoo; they've been sold to the Riverside & Great Northern ...
On Saturday, May 13, visitors to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland can take a ride on an 111-year-old steam locomotive. Nowadays, most trains are electric or diesel-powered ...