215 years ago, Richard Trevithick invented something that changed the world – the steam engine. Trevithick had worked in tin mines in the county of Cornwell. Growing up he had been a bad student, ...

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 ...

A 79-YEAR-OLD man has painstakingly recreated a 19th century steam locomotive with the help of one surviving photo. David Young spent more than 5,000 hours, over three years, building Samson at ...

MARQUETTE, MI – A 19th Century steam locomotive is set for a 900-mile journey from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Pennsylvania. The Yankee is a vertical boiler model manufactured by Alexander Chaplin ...

LONDON — Tourists waiting for their morning subway train to Madame Tussauds were treated to an unusual sight Sunday: a 19th- century steam engine chugging down the tracks. Transit officials sent the ...

LINDEN, Ind. (AP) — It was the early days of the railroad, and there were cleaner ways to travel than by train. With no covering above their heads, ash and cinders rained down on passengers from a ...

Ride sharing and self-driving cars may transform cities, but the key to really understanding modern metropolitan areas is the steam locomotive, according to new research. The researchers analyzed more ...

JAMESTOWN, Calif.--Stephanie Tadlock is a steam nerd. For years, Tadlock has been a volunteer at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park here in California's Gold Country, the country's longest continuously ...