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 ...

A gigantic steam engine could soon run on the railroad tracks in Nashville once again. People working to revive the train said that the breath-taking sight of a steam engine huffing and puffing along ...

The 53rd annual LaGrange Engine Club Engine Show took place Sept. 20-22 at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington. The popular event this year highlighted Pennsylvania-built steam engines, J. I.

UK burgundy passports started in 1988, following the European Community’s common format, and were phased out after Brexit, ...

In the middle of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn is the 25-acre Pratt Institute campus, a gorgeous collection of landmarked buildings amidst open green space. On the first floor of East Hall (originally the ...

The steam engine is often credited as one of the most transformative inventions in human history. It laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution, revolutionised transport, and shifted the ...

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 ...

ELY, Nev. (KTNV) — In one Nevada community, the history of the American railway is kept alive and well. "Our trains are 100 and 150 years old, and that's what we run. We have people who will reserve ...

On Tuesday, December 30, 2025, the General Steam Navigation Locomotive 35011 celebrated 81 years since it first entered service. The historic steam engine has had a bumpy ride this year, after it was ...

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 details of how the ...

EDGAR, Wis. (WSAW) - Trains, tractors, and other antique farming equipment are on display now in Edgar for the annual Edgar Steam Show. For 51 years, Edgar has been a go-to place for teaching people ...

Richard Trevithick did not own slaves. He was a barely literate engineer, born toward the end of the 18th century, who grappled with—and ultimately solved—the question of how to improve the steam ...