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 ...
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.
The General Steam Navigation Locomotive Society has announced that they will be leaving the Swindon and Cricklade Railway. This is due to the railway telling the society that a Merchant Navy ...
David Thompson is now aged 80, and one of the Great Central Railway’s longest-serving drivers. He has decided now is the right time to hang up his overalls despite, as he says, “steam being driven ...
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 ...
But he still remembers when he first laid eyes on a steam locomotive train as a child. “I could tell you the date that I got into this stuff was December 27, 1991. An Atchison, Topeka and Santa ...
Indeed, the injection of steam alone has been effectually applied to light trains on a short incline of 1 in 22. But experience soon showed that the only general and complete solution of the ...