The Ffestiniog Railway has issued a report on the latest work to overhaul Mountaineer, which is a 2-6-2T locomotive built by ...

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Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.

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

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.

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The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten ...

On Tuesday, December 30, 2025, the General Steam Navigation Locomotive 35011 celebrated 81 years since it first entered service. The historic steam engine has had a bumpy ride this year, after it was ...

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A roughly half-acre parcel in downtown Hartford that was once eyed for a 100,000-square-foot office building has been sold to Hartford Steam Boiler. A deed received by the city on Nov. 20 shows the ...