The American Steam Railroad Preservation Association is aiming for an initial test firing of Reading Co. 4-8-4 No. 2100 ...

To find out which of the 2-8-2 Mikado-type steam locomotives are still operating, check out the Great American Steam Locomotives: Mikados DVD from Trains.

Brand-new Milwaukee Road class A 4-4-2 Atlantic-type No. 4 stands for a portrait at the road’s West Milwaukee Shops on Sept. 15, 1937. Alco built class As Nos. 1 and 2 in 1935, No. 3 in 1936, and No.

Bitten by the steam bug at an early age, Mitchell Johnson will seize any opportunity to go where operating steam locomotives ...

Hy-polite Uhry, and Henry A. Luttgens, both of Patterson, N. J., for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive engines for the purpose of improving the working of steam in cylinders ...

Jim Rice had no particular interest in trains when he first got a job as a groundskeeper at Strasburg Rail Road in 1973.

Steam locomotives have several times attained speeds of from 105 to 120 miles an hour over distances of less than eight miles. But the fastest time made regularly on American steam roads is 75 to ...

O. Winston Link was a pioneering American commercial photographer. Best known for his images of steam locomotives, Link is responsible for developing the equipment and techniques that allowed for some ...

especially a beloved steam locomotive. The efforts of the 27-year-old American have won praise and admiration from residents in this prefecture as well as other railway enthusiasts around the country.

Indeed, the injection of steam alone has been effectually applied to light trains on a short incline of 1 in 22. But experience soon showed that the only general and complete solution of the ...

The worker was fired for refusing to issue steam locomotive and conductor licenses to an untrained and unqualified management ...