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 ...

Union Pacific faced the immense challenge of hauling heavy freight trains across rugged mountain terrain, requiring ...

The Severn Valley Railway has announced that Chaloner will be visiting them for their Through The Ages Event. The event is ...

The Darjeeling Tank Locomotive Trust has made a major step forward in the return of B class No. 19, with contract signing and first parts imminent for the boiler. The trust has signed a contract with ...

The historic Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad (H&BT) steam locomotive No. 38 has come full circle since 1954, as it undergoes a concentrated restoration in Claysburg, Blair County. The only ...

The locomotive began 45-minute excursion runs by early April, mechanically fresh from a federally mandated 1,472-day boiler inspection that began in early 2024. Cosmetically, the gold numbers, ...

A recession forced Fairbairn to diversify his services from manufacturing cotton to boilers for locomotives and shipbuilding. Working together with Lillie, he built the Lord Dundas, an iron paddle ...

The locomotives were facing each other with 2 miles between them, and each engineer throttled their train wide open and then jumped off. When they collided head-on, both of the boilers exploded and ...

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Many depots had so many engines the Shed Firemen couldn't do them all. The steam engines at Nyngan were invariably dirty, some even had dirty boilers. This proved a proclivity to 'prime' on heavy ...