The introduction of several advanced, efficient, and more robust power options over the years has largely overshadowed steam engine technology. However, it was a revolutionary technology that, upon ...

Steam engines and diesel engines have a lot in common. First off, they share the same blood, or to put it differently, they both use heat to make mechanical power. Secondly, these combustion brothers ...

In an unusual sort-of time-traveling-industrial-kinship, a historic Bay Area train steam engine in need of new parts is getting a helping hand from an equally historic gold country foundry. The ...

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) - It’s not every day someone unearths pieces of Limestone County’s history, but Tommy Mitchell recently did just that with the help of a metal detector. Mitchell, a Limestone native ...

DENNISON It's been long enough. After waiting 20 years, Chesapeake & Ohio (C & O) Steam Engine Number 2700 will undergo restoration. The engine is currently situated at the east end of the Dennison ...

The Whitin Machine Works did not win World War II, but it definitely did its part during the war. And one Uxbridge man is working to make one of the former manufacturing company's contributions to our ...

Sep. 27—Railroad fans who enjoy steam engines have one last opportunity this weekend to ride in a train powered by Abilene's Santa Fe 3415 locomotive before it is taken out of service for required ...