A railfan remembers encounters with the familiar 4-6-4 Hudson steam locomotive type on multiple railroads around the Great ...

Explore the fascinating mechanics behind a steam locomotive, a marvel of engineering that revolutionized transportation. This video unpacks how heat from burning oil in the tender turns water into ...

The National Railway Historical Society, Railway Age and Railway Track & Structures have awarded Reading Blue Mountain & ...

When it comes to making sense of steam, look at the design. Like many railroads, the Baltimore & Ohio favored the 4-6-2 Pacific wheel arrangement for its passenger locomotives. This P7 “President ...

When we speak of injecting water issuing from the boiler into the cylinders of a locomotive engine ... but various other arrangements may be adopted. The pipes,D,leading from the boiler to ...

The recovery operations following Tuesday night's train derailment in Camagüey are moving forward at a brisk pace. According ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Contributor If you grew up around here, you likely learned a bit about steam locomotives during Pacific Northwest History class in high school. Since at least the 1890s, the ...

Locomotive crews had previously been warned about the bizarre occurrence, with an infestation of Portuguese millipedes thought to have caused train tracks to become slippery when crushed by the wheels ...