There are just a couple days left to ride the last coal-fired steam locomotive at the Milwaukee County Zoo—one of the days being this coming Saturday, Sept. 14. Partly for environmental reasons, the ...

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 2-6-6-2 steam locomotive #1308 displayed at Safety Town in Huntington, West Virginia, was ...

A group of historical amusement park steam engines continue to work building up steam and doing what they were designed to do ...

A 75-year old Santa Fe locomotive sits in a Topeka, Kan., park waiting to take a ride to Minneapolis where it will be fixed up with digital technology and new engineering in an effort to revive steam ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive ...

It's easy to tell when the Milwaukee County Zoo's steam locomotives are chugging around the track that encircles the facility. The white smoke billowing from the stack is the first clue and the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A long way from its ...

This past Saturday, a coal-fired steam locomotive named Sadie pulled into Union Station in downtown Wichita. Officially known as Lehigh Valley Coal Co. #126, Sadie is the featured attraction for the ...

1812: John Blenkinsop shows off the world's first rack-and-pinion steam locomotive. Unlike other early steam locomotives, it will become a commercial success as a coal hauler. Blenkinsop, the manager ...

Peeking over downtown Macon is a unique, concrete structure around 90 feet tall. It has stood for more than a century, surviving the age of steam, serving as a reminder of Macon’s industrial past and ...

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