In an unusual sort-of time-traveling-industrial-kinship, a historic Bay Area train steam engine in need of new parts is getting a helping hand from an equally historic gold country foundry. The ...

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) - It’s not every day someone unearths pieces of Limestone County’s history, but Tommy Mitchell recently did just that with the help of a metal detector. Mitchell, a Limestone native ...

EAST GREENWICH — Billows of smoke and steam hovered over the Yankee Steam-Up at the New England Wireless and Steam Museum last Saturday, attracting a large crowd despite an overcast sky. The smoke was ...

Two unique boiler parts essential for the restoration of a steam engine have been stolen by metal thieves in a raid on a Shropshire heritage railway – with the fear they will be sold off as scrap.

Those born after the 1970s have not had the chance to experience the thrills of travelling in trains pulled by steam engines. Before the arrival of the diesel engine, James Watt’s coal-fired steam ...

Philip Girdlestone, who has died aged 61, was a passionately committed engineer who made it his life's work to design a new generation of steam locomotives that were far more efficient, reliable and ...