The introduction of several advanced, efficient, and more robust power options over the years has largely overshadowed steam ...

The Whitin Machine Works did not win World War II, but it definitely did its part during the war. And one Uxbridge man is working to make one of the former manufacturing company's contributions to our ...

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) - It’s not every day someone unearths pieces of Limestone County’s history, but Tommy Mitchell recently did just that with the help of a metal detector. Mitchell, a Limestone native ...

Those born after the 1970s have not had the chance to experience the thrills of travelling in trains pulled by steam engines. Before the arrival of the diesel engine, James Watt’s coal-fired steam ...

The steam engine is often credited as one of the most transformative inventions in human history. It laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution, revolutionised transport, and shifted the ...

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten Mallard’s speed record while no one was looking… and being in production ...

Two unique boiler parts essential for the restoration of a steam engine have been stolen by metal thieves in a raid on a Shropshire heritage railway – with the fear they will be sold off as scrap.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as the end of next year, Nashvillians could once again hear a distinct whistle that once rang through Music City as locomotive No. 576 pulled passengers and freight ...