Next October, the Bluebell Railway is to celebrate Railway 200 with its own event celebrating locomotives that have been ...

By contrast, the steam engines that preceded the internal combustion engines and electric trains of today were anything but small and subtle. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ...

Model steam engines have intrigued hackers and makers for over 100 years. Many of us have seen old steam engine models up for sale at garage sales and various internet auction sites. The problem ...

The potential for the new technology was limitless. A cottage economy of tinkerers and engineers took to their barns. Pioneers like Thomas Newcomen and James Watt created ever-improving steam engines.

A 1930s steam engine which was bought for £50 in 1950 ... locomotive had "put on quite a show" when it steamed in to New Bond Street earlier in the week. "It was delivered at 4 o'clock in ...

An immense amount of time and money has been expended upon new and ingenious cut-offs for steam engines. Each in its turn, as it was brought before the public, was supposed to excel its ...

Instead, this is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s and 30s experiments with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific’s oil-fired condensing turbo-electrics. The new idea here ...

The form of this cut-off is not new, but the method of operating ... which increases as the undue velocity of the engine increases, to cut offthe steam early when necessary. Measures have been ...

Steam locomotive Isaac has been repainted into a Caledonian-style livery at the Statfold Barn Railway & Museum at Tamworth in ...

The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo PUUNENE – The Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum has acquired two Nordberg steam engines and hopes to have one ready to display in a new outdoor exhibit by ...