I dabbled a great deal in narrow gauge modeling over the years, but found U.S. main line Class I railroads more to my taste. I like the operation potential of main lines, with many categories of ...

QUESTION: Why is George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 regarded as the first steam locomotive? What about Richard Trevithick’s Penydarren? Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 is significant because ...

Hy-polite Uhry, and Henry A. Luttgens, both of Patterson, N. J., for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive engines for the purpose of improving the working of steam in cylinders ...

The wet steam, on the water issuing from the boiler, gives this minimum proportion. The apparatus to be fitted to the locomotive to admit of working counter-pressure steam as a brake, is as simple ...

Next October, the Bluebell Railway is to celebrate Railway 200 with its own event celebrating locomotives that have been built since the end of steam. The celebratory event is titled ‘Giants of Steam ...

These will be standard services, allowing the public to have a ride behind the BR green locomotive. This is the third visitor confirmed for the 2025 season, following on from the NER Autocar’s visit ...

So, if people knowledgeable about the era of the streamlined passenger train on this continent ... some railroads elected to paint their exteriors in their company colors. The Pennsylvania Railroad, ...

The GM locomotives had a higher pitch sound to them and their idle speed was higher and one always had the feeling they were idling too high. The early 42 Class streamlined cabin ... One of the steam ...

Allan Davis had a total of 46 years on the Footplate through the steam years and into the diesel era ... This book revealed what it was actually like, being in control of a locomotive and a train, on ...