WILLMAR -- A piece of history chugged into town Saturday with a visit by the Milwaukee Road No. 261, a steam locomotive restored to the heyday of the steam-powered train. Milwaukee Road No. 261 backs ...
A 40-acre field in Canandaigua was transformed into a mecca of wheels, whistles and water vapor as the New York Steam Engine Association Pageant of Steam chugged along Thursday. Steam engine and heavy ...
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Green Bay's prized historic train engine is on its way back home. After a two-year hiatus at a museum in England, the locomotive named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower is being ...
The Soulé Steam Museum is America’s last intact steam engine factory, and even helped the key brothers set the world record for endurance flight. Friday and Saturday, they are hosting a live steam ...
Steam is among the most common phenomena on Earth—boil water, and it appears. Wrangling it into engines was among the most significant developments in human history, not to mention fashion. For it's ...
The 53rd annual LaGrange Engine Club Engine Show took place Sept. 20-22 at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington. The popular event this year highlighted Pennsylvania-built steam engines, J. I.
Editor's note: This is the 23rd of a series of stories that will be featured in the Pensacola News Journal to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Escambia County. Look for these stories each Monday in ...
From the velocipede (pictured above) to buses, vehicles powered by steam were being beta-tested throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The results were pretty weird, and hint at ...
The first artifact installed at the National Museum of Industrial History is only now ready to show visitors its potential. It's been a lengthy road for the 115-ton Corliss steam engine, begun with ...
It is big. And loud. Furthermore, it belches steam. "It's the smell," says railroad fanatic Sam Sargent about a 1940s train engine known as the Union Pacific Big Boy, the largest, heaviest and most ...
About 45 minutes outside of Buffalo, you can find the home of the Western New York Gas and Steam Engine Association. For anyone that is into unique agricultural heritage, antique tractors and steam ...