Chuffing, hissing and moaning, steam engines are like mythic creatures — dragonlike spectacles that draw a crowd wherever they go. But in October 1956, the era of daily steam engines was ending in San ...
It was like Christmas morning for Maxwell Merry. His mom, Jordan, said Max was up at 5 a.m. and ready to head out to be one of the first train enthusiasts in northern Ohio to greet the Nickel Plate ...
The first thing you might notice about the restored locomotive departing from Old Sacramento is the billowing cloud of steam pouring out of the shiny, black engine, stamped with the name Granite Rock ...
On a sliver of land in Jefferson Parish, between packed parking lots and near a helicopter landing pad, sits a bygone mode of transportation: a steam engine. The hulking Southern Pacific engine No.