TRAIN LOVERS DID NOT WANT TO MISS THIS. THE TRAIN WHISTLE WAS LIKE MUSIC TO THIS CROWD AT UNION STATION TODAY. THE HISTORIC BIG BOY 4014 WAS RESTORED FOR THIS TOUR, COMMEMORATING THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY ...
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Big Boy locomotive steams into Houston, drawing crowds: 'Something you cannot see every day'
Eliza Gonzalez, 4, was really looking forward to seeing Union Pacific’s Big Boy pull into Navasota on Friday morning. Hearing ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection consists of 202 assembly drawings of locomotives and tenders, prepared to check the clearances and major component parts of the ...
THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE ENERGY STORY: How These Locomotives Used Energy and What Was Done to Make Them More Efficient. By Walter Simpson. The Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society, Inc. Hardcover, 144 ...
There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...
It was like Christmas morning for Maxwell Merry. His mom, Jordan, said Max was up at 5 a.m. and ready to head out to be one of the first train enthusiasts in northern Ohio to greet the Nickel Plate ...
Steam turbine-powered locomotives never really caught on. Similar to gas turbine engines, steam turbines are efficient at certain rpm, and extremely inefficient at many others. At high speeds, they ...
Britain's most famous steam locomotive turned 100 this year, and along the way it has inspired poets, Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Potter and royalty. What makes it such an enduring icon? Some grow ...
In the January 1949 issue, Popular Mechanics witnessed the end of the steam locomotive era as the American Locomotive Company, in its 100th year of operation (when combined with the history of its pre ...
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