Will it pull?" is a question that has been frequently asked while the big electric locomotive for the Belt Railroad was untried. Thursday an informal test of this 100-ton machine was made.
The iconic Flying Scotsman steam train first entered service 100 years ago today. It broke records by hauling the first non-stop London to Edinburgh service in 1928 and became the UK's first ...
This holiday favorite follows the journey of a young boy to ... an icon of the steam-era until 1969. The locomotive was cared for by the Michigan State Trust for Railway Preservation (MSTRP), and in ...
and it’s a fascinating journey into a technology that might have been. The Fell differential gearbox. All diesel locomotive designs struggle with the problem of transmitting the huge torque ...