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

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 ...

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.

Bitten by the steam bug at an early age, Mitchell Johnson will seize any opportunity to go where operating steam locomotives are being worked on. On the mechanical side, the 19-year-old lends a hand ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.