Engineering choices can force automakers to make adjustments down the road, like Chevrolet did with the implementation of ...

The Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust wants to bring the steam locomotive back to the region. The nonprofit, which restores and operates the Colebrookdale Railroad between Pottstown and ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo's popular zoo train will undergo some changes this year. The train's two steam locomotive engines will leave the zoo; they've been sold to the Riverside & Great Northern ...

You can think of a steam engine as a big teakettle that uses heat to boil water into steam. The steam is then used to run the engine and trailing cars down the track. Each trainset had four cars, ...

Have you ever wondered why we still measure an engine's output in horsepower? It all started as clever marketing, but the ...

“An unforeseen mechanical issue" was discovered during a test run of the steam locomotive Pere Marquette 1225 before the ...

Volunteers at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Telford have restored a full-scale working replica of the world's first steam railway locomotive. The Trevithick was first designed by Richard Trevithick in ...

Sometimes, looking back at history helps us understand what is happening to us today. When the steam engine arrived in factories, it wasn’t just a technical innovation, it changed the world. Suddenly, ...

The William H. Simpson No. 17, a historic steam engine, returns to Northern Central Railway of York in New Freedom, Wednesday ...