When the Kinks' Ray Davies penned the tune 'Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,' the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist, the replacement ...
It also transforms into an entire Christmas experience—a tradition now running for two decades. Built in 1941 in Lima, Ohio, the Pere Marquette 1225 is one of the most powerful steam engines ever ...
The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...