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 ...

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 ...

A deal has been struck between the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway and the 6880 Betton Grange Society which will see 6880 Betton Grange based at the railway for the foreseeable future. The ...

The LMS Patriot Project has released a small update on the work taking place on 5551 The Unknown Warrior. The locomotive has now been moved into the main erecting shop at Vintage Trains‘ Tyseley ...

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 ...

The nominal horse power of a locomotive of the dimensions given and performing, as described, is eight hundred. This is estimated by multiplying the pressure of the steam per inch on the area of ...

diesels provided a useful technological stepping-stone from steam power and the cleaner, faster and greener future, although diesel locomotives and multiple-units still ply their trade on ...