Electricity is the best way to power most tiny electric models, including trains. A coal-fired steam turbine is the right way, however.

It hasn’t run in decades, its boiler is cold, and its steel bones are scattered in pieces across a rail yard — but for ...

This left Douglas in need of a locomotive to run on his new railroad, so he ordered one from the H. K. Porter & Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., who specialized in small steam locomotives.

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few ...

With the museum preparing to return to steam-powered locomotives as its primary source of train-pulling power after more than a decade of relying mostly on diesel, the auction is considered part ...

Noel Poirier, executive director of the Age of Steam Roundhouse, walks near Canadian Pacific No. 1293, built in 1948 by Canadian Locomotive Co. It is one of two steam locomotives at the Age of ...

Built at Swindon in 1934, number 5029 Nunney Castle was one of a class of locos that headed express trains on the Great ...

One small word keeps coming up among those anticipating this week's historic visitor to Eastern Iowa. 'This is obviously kind of a big deal,' said Darren Ferreter. 'This is a big deal,' echoed ...