There are just a couple days left to ride the last coal-fired steam locomotive at the Milwaukee County Zoo—one of the days being this coming Saturday, Sept. 14. Partly for environmental reasons, the ...

Steam turbine-powered locomotives never really caught on. Similar to gas turbine engines, steam turbines are efficient at certain rpm, and extremely inefficient at many others. At high speeds, they ...

The New York Central Railroad Co. last week placed the year’s biggest order for locomotives. They were all diesels—in of them, to cost $21,000,000. Thus, the New York Central marked the quiet ...

The AC-9 articulated steamers were another very important historical steam engine that should have been saved by Southern ...

View Big Boy 4014, the massive steam engine that recently arrived in Cheyenne for restoration, during Cheyenne’s annual Depot Days festival this weekend. During the two-day event, visitors get ...