A group of mostly volunteers are working to overhaul Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad's steam locomotive, the only ...

Compared to their traditional reciprocating rod-driven counterparts, geared steam locomotives can be seen as "oddballs" to the casual eye. They certainly fit that bill with their unique styles of ...

It’s interesting then to hear of a brand new steam locomotive prototype being considered ... as [Terrier55Stepney] tells us in the video below the break. Gone is the huge boiler and ...

The decades-long effort to advance the design and technology of steam locomotives constantly circled back to the idea of "make it bigger." Articulated engines took that notion and doubled it both ...

As a 2-8-4 with the four driving axles in its centre sporting connecting rods, it resembled a steam locomotive from the chassis downwards but with a very diesel-age cab and superstructure.

The wet steam, on the water issuing from the boiler, gives this minimum proportion. The apparatus to be fitted to the locomotive to admit of working counter-pressure steam as a brake, is as simple ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are testing replacing environmentally unfriendly power sources for the trains to help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.