This past weekend, I trekked to the Texas Transportation Museum for the express purpose of taking a ride on a historic 1925 Baldwin steam engine. What I wasn't expecting was all the chaos that ensued ...

Chuffing, hissing and moaning, steam engines are like mythic creatures — dragonlike spectacles that draw a crowd wherever they go. But in October 1956, the era of daily steam engines was ending in San ...

On a sliver of land in Jefferson Parish, between packed parking lots and near a helicopter landing pad, sits a bygone mode of transportation: a steam engine. The hulking Southern Pacific engine No.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nickel Plate Road No. 765 steam locomotive heads into the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad Fitzwater Maintenance Yard on April 24 ...

In the January 1949 issue, Popular Mechanics witnessed the end of the steam locomotive era as the American Locomotive Company, in its 100th year of operation (when combined with the history of its pre ...

WAUWATOSA - If you strained your eyes, you could see a puff of smoke rise into the air. As the train broke into view, a hush fell over the crowd of hundreds. They intently positioned their phones and ...