To find out which of the 2-8-2 Mikado-type steam locomotives are still operating, check out the Great American Steam Locomotives: Mikados DVD from Trains.

Thus, instead of locomotives with 18 x 24-inch cylinders and 1,200 to 1,300 square feet of heating surface, and 160 pounds of steam pressure, the American builders would probably have sent over an ...

Hy-polite Uhry, and Henry A. Luttgens, both of Patterson, N. J., for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive engines for the purpose of improving the working of steam in cylinders ...

A new steam restoration group has purchased former Chesapeake & Ohio Class J3a 4-8-4 passenger locomotive No. 614 (Lima Locomotive Works, 1948) and plans to return it to operating condition. RJD ...

O. Winston Link was a pioneering American commercial photographer. Best known for his images of steam locomotives, Link is responsible for developing the equipment and techniques that allowed for some ...

Those wishing to see Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive ... 10-state Heartland of American Tour before it returns to Cheyenne, Wyoming. The tour covered Wyoming ...

Hundreds of Kansans greet the world's largest steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014 ... in North Topeka for hours waiting to see a piece of American history pass through town. Just before 1 p.m ...

(KWCH) - A historic steam locomotive is drawing crowds in Salina ... the experience of seeing the imposing symbol of industry in American history was an experience unlike any they’ve had before.

Andrew PM Wright The event was expected to take place from 25 to 27 October They said the event, which was set to feature historic steam locomotives, had fallen through "despite much hard work by ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are testing replacing environmentally unfriendly power sources for the trains to help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.