This past weekend, I trekked to the Texas Transportation Museum for the express purpose of taking a ride on a historic 1925 Baldwin steam engine. What I wasn't expecting was all the chaos that ensued ...
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 ...
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.
On Saturday, May 13, visitors to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland can take a ride on an 111-year-old steam locomotive. Nowadays, most trains are electric or diesel-powered, but ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nickel Plate Road No. 765 steam locomotive heads into the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad Fitzwater Maintenance Yard on April 24 ...
WAUWATOSA - If you strained your eyes, you could see a puff of smoke rise into the air. As the train broke into view, a hush fell over the crowd of hundreds. They intently positioned their phones and ...