While one may not see a steam engine tractor in use on many farms these days, the history of farming is thriving in Boonville. Hundreds of antique tractors, trucks and cars filled the Brady ...

The first thing you might notice about the restored locomotive departing from Old Sacramento is the billowing cloud of steam pouring out of the shiny, black engine, stamped with the name Granite Rock ...

A gigantic steam engine could soon run on the railroad tracks in Nashville once again. People working to revive the train said that the breath-taking sight of a steam engine huffing and puffing along ...

Cincinnati’s wonderful Fire Museum on Court Street continually burnishes our city’s two fire-fighting claims to fame: Cincinnati created the first professional fire department in the United States in ...

Three locomotives plunged into the flooded Kansas River when a railroad bridge collapsed nearly 70 years ago, on July 13, 1951, in Topeka. One of those steam engines is highlighted in a "ghost train" ...

Wouldn't it be great to turn back the hands of time and witness Chambersburg's horse drawn steam fire engines in action? This column will look at when steam fire engines made their entry into the ...

Editor's note: This is the 23rd of a series of stories that will be featured in the Pensacola News Journal to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Escambia County. Look for these stories each Monday in ...

The 53rd annual LaGrange Engine Club Engine Show took place Sept. 20-22 at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington. The popular event this year highlighted Pennsylvania-built steam engines, J. I.

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 ...

Sometimes, looking back at history helps us understand what is happening to us today. When the steam engine arrived in factories, it wasn’t just a technical innovation, it changed the world. Suddenly, ...