Building a simple boiler for your model steam engine doesn’t need to be complicated. In this practical guide, we show you how ...

Just to test the train, 400 feet of unconnected track had to be built and a crane was rented to put the steam engine on the track. Despite the unexpected twists of the rebuild, the challenges were ...

The most powerful steam locomotive is indeed an impressive engine, whose massive build offered output to match. It has a 2-10-10-2 wheel layout, and has 48-inch low pressure cylinders hanging on ...

When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, including those of the scanning electron variety, you know you’re building something really, really tiny. All of the usual tiny ...

The legendary N&W 611 steam engine is back on rails…in Salem. Students at HopeTree Academy of HopeTree Family Services (formerly Virginia Baptist Children’s Home & Family Services) have built a ...

When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, including those of the scanning electron variety, you know you’re building something really, really tiny. All of the usual tiny ...

The No. 1916 engine is leaving the zoo April 1, and the No. 1924 engine will leave Oct. 31. The train will continue to use its two diesel engines and is buying two custom-built diesel engines to ...

A steam engine built in 1929 will have its original name plates reattached after they were found by auctioneers following a house clearance. They belonged to a train called Newstead, which was ...

Iowa Interstate Railroad's Chinese-built 2-10-2 steam engine will run from Newton, Iowa, to Bureau, Ill., this weekend for train buffs who like to see steam engines.

That'll get the homeowner steamed up! Vintage traction steam engine ploughs into living room of house. The traction engine, built in 1913, crashed into the home in Great Dunmow, Essex ...

A steam locomotive built more than 100 years ago has returned to the Kent & East Sussex Railway after it was bought by a volunteer. The Peckett & Sons 0-4-0T engine, ... home secretary confirms. 9.

And you'd be right to – but well over a thousand years before that, shortly after 0 CE, Hero of Alexandria described a sort of steam engine, used for an unknown purpose.The device is a simple ...