From West Virginia’s Appalachians to California’s Redwood forests, they still make an impressive sight. To find geared steam locomotives that still operate, check out the Great American Steam ...

Thus, instead of locomotives with 18 x 24-inch cylinders and 1,200 to 1,300 square feet of heating surface, and 160 pounds of steam pressure, the American builders would probably have sent over an ...

Hy-polite Uhry, and Henry A. Luttgens, both of Patterson, N. J., for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive engines for the purpose of improving the working of steam in cylinders ...

American Steam Railroad Preservation Association CLEVELAND — The American Steam Railroad ... That allowed contractors to move forward with cab and burner pipework and bracket fabrication when they ...

1 was one of three locomotives used to pull the American Freedom Train of 1975 and 1976 as part of the Bicentennial Celebration of American Independence. It is the only locomotive of the three ...

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Next October, the Bluebell Railway is to celebrate Railway 200 with its own event celebrating locomotives that have been built since the end of steam. The celebratory event is titled ‘Giants of Steam ...

LMS No. 46115 Scots Guardsman has been announced as a visitor to The Greatest Gathering. The Greatest Gathering is set to take place this August… ...

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Under the rule, railroads operating in California would have had to begin contributing to a spending account where money would be set aside for the acquisition of zero-emission locomotives. The ...

ON January 21 occurs the tercentenary of the birth of John Fitch, the American pioneer of the steam-boat, who while other inventors were struggling with costly and inconclusive experiments built ...

QUESTION: Why is George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 regarded as the first steam locomotive? What about Richard Trevithick’s Penydarren? Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 is significant because ...