The decades-long effort to advance the design and technology of steam locomotives constantly circled back to the idea of ...

YPSILANTI, MI - There is a city that bustles in Jack Stankrauff’s basement. There are inch-tall people and shops in the ...

Once destined for a museum, organizers now hope the train will be running a 240-kilometre-long trip between Kamloops and ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few ...

helped power everything from a simple car engine to entire trains and commercial ships. However, steam engines had their own set of shortcomings, like its continual dependency on labor for ...

A model train snakes around it and is complete with steam engines, a magnetic crane and cars with miniature passengers. It’s the culmination of 30 years of work – but all of it must be dismantled.