Colonel John Stevens, Revolutionary War veteran and wealthy businessman of Hoboken, New Jersey, was a staunch advocate of steam railway transportation in the United States. Many Americans of his time, ...

Union Pacific Railroad unveiled an advanced experimental locomotive at its J.R. Davis Yard in Roseville that will test three emissions-reducing technologies including exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), ...

ON November 30, the London and North Eastern Railway made an experimental run with a train from London to Leeds and back, to demonstrate what the possibilities were with steam as compared with oil.

There has long been a peculiar and enduring interest in new locomotive designs emerging from Swindon. For decades, the works of the Great Western Railway ha ...

The Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914) saw remarkable technological advancements in every facet of daily life. Two from this period — electricity and steel — came together to form the basis for ...

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 places, but ...

Locomotives have a fascinating history. They were one of the first methods to mass transport goods from one place to another, and while the first railroads used horses to pull carts along the tracks, ...

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First edition, 1837, published under title: The Boston school compendium ..