The origins of articulated steam locomotives can be traced as far back as the 1860s to Scottish engineer Robert Francis Fairlie. Patenting the narrow-gauge Fairlie locomotive in 1864, he experimented ...

The key to articulated steam locomotives involves two separate ... he experimented with double-ended boilers resting on either a 0-4-4-0T or 0-6-6-0T wheelbase. Mixed results brought little ...

Screenshot from WATE-TV video PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. — The Dollywood theme park has parted with a steam locomotive that had been on display at the park, and has aided hurricane victims in doing so.

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 ...

Volunteers at the Corris Railway have started the ten-year overhaul of the railway’s steam locomotive No. 7, a replica of the Talyllyn Railway’s Kerr Stuart “Tattoo” class locomotive No. 4 Edward ...

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.

for overheating steam within the smoke box of ... box attached to the cylin drical part of a locomotive boiler; B are the ase so formed is from 4 to 8 inches high, ac cording to the size of ...

A much-loved locomotive is one step closer to returning to the Severn Valley Railway. The Erlestoke Manor Fund (EMF) is relishing the imminent return of former GWR 4-6-0 no 7802 Bradley Manor to the ...

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 ...

I soon convinced myself that the heating of the cylinders went on >'0 ... wet steam, on the water issuing from the boiler, gives this minimum proportion. The apparatus to be fitted to the ...