A 143-year tradition came to an end a year ago this week as No. 481 marked the last of the Durango & Silverton's steam locomotives that the company converted from coal burning to oil.

This is an arrangement f or regulating the amount of air which is supplied to a coal-burning locomotive, and supplying the air at the requisite speed and pressure by means of a fan blast.

Mumbai: Earlier, coal-powered engine trains used to run here. Then came the era of diesel engines. Now, electric engines have started running. But do you know where and when the first electric ...

The biofuel is being used to continually maintain the steam locomotive engine’s fire, which then protects their boilers. As much as 530 tons of coal was poured into three steam engines last year ...