Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...

Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.

About four years ago, Keith Bass and Aaron McCreight took a trip to Southern Louisiana to buy a tractor. As any mechanically ...

The steam engine still drives the economy in Germany. In areas where there were particularly large numbers of steam engines at the end of the 19th century, average wages are still more than 4 per cent ...

Seneca Falls, it seems, has always been the little town that could — especially in its industrial heyday of the mid-to-late ...

Work has been progressing over the last year to get Kamloops’ historic 2141 steam locomotive back to touring  the Thompson ...

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one ...

When Pond became aware of OTF, the account only had 10,000 reviews to its name. Out of all of those, OTF dramatically ...

Steam engines like the Fowler B6 were once the peak of British engineering - now almost all are gone. Alex Sharp sets out to ...

Alresford is not your typical train station. Situated just half an hour drive from Wrecclesham in Surrey, passengers can step ...

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten ...

South Devon Railway is kicking off the new year with the return of its Winter Steam Gala. The three-day event which finishes ...