Cincinnati’s wonderful Fire Museum on Court Street continually burnishes our city’s two fire-fighting claims to fame: Cincinnati created the first professional fire department in the United States in ...
Downtown Meridian is the place to be this Friday and Saturday for those who would like to see history come to life.The Soulé ...
Editor's note: This is the 23rd of a series of stories that will be featured in the Pensacola News Journal to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Escambia County. Look for these stories each Monday in ...
Wouldn't it be great to turn back the hands of time and witness Chambersburg's horse drawn steam fire engines in action? This column will look at when steam fire engines made their entry into the ...
In 1859, an event as significant as the advent of the wheel took place in Etienne Lenoir's workshop. The Belgian inventor converted a steam engine to ignite a mix of air and coal gas via a two-stroke ...
It is big. And loud. Furthermore, it belches steam. "It's the smell," says railroad fanatic Sam Sargent about a 1940s train engine known as the Union Pacific Big Boy, the largest, heaviest and most ...
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – In Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County it was the second day of the annual Nine-Day Steam Engine Association Show which honors agriculture history. This marks the event’s 65th ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as the end of next year, Nashvillians could once again hear a distinct whistle that once rang through Music City as locomotive No. 576 pulled passengers and freight ...
SNAKE RIVER CANYON • If you float the Snake River when the water is low, you might get a glimpse of a steam-engine tractor lying on its side in the river east of the Perrine Memorial Bridge. But the ...