The SS United States is the fastest ocean liner in the world, but what kind of mighty powerplants gave the huge ship such ...

About four years ago, Keith Bass and Aaron McCreight took a trip to Southern Louisiana to buy a tractor. As any mechanically ...

Seneca Falls, it seems, has always been the little town that could — especially in its industrial heyday of the mid-to-late ...

Built in 1872, Fenchurch was one of the Terrier tank engines used on the Weston, Clevedon, and Portishead Light Railway.

THE headstone of one of the first engine drivers on the Stockton & Railway has been rediscovered and is to take centre stage in ...

Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...

When the locomotives met, their boilers exploded almost simultaneously, hurling metal fragments and debris high into the air.

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

Imagine a train ride, rolling across the countryside, through the mountain passes, and through historic towns. While these images may be what Americans commonly experienced when traveling 100 years ...

SIOUX CITY - Nearly 65,000 pounds of cast iron that represented "the heart and soul" of the cooling operations for a longtime Sioux City meatpacking plant has been disassembled and taken to its final ...

When the fire departments arrived, the building was already around 90 percent involved. There are many chemicals inside the structure due to the nature of the business. Fire officials say that there ...