It’s a cliché to refer to a decade as a “decade of change.” In the summation of our nation’s history, what decade wasn’t a ...

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It is big. And loud. Furthermore, it belches steam. "It's the smell," says railroad fanatic Sam Sargent about a 1940s train engine known as the Union Pacific Big Boy, the largest, heaviest and most ...

A BLAST from the past steamed into Portsmouth with the arrival of two iconic 1940s steam trains, ready to give passengers a day out to remember. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, ...

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 ...

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One of the world’s biggest and most powerful steam locomotives is chugging to its big debut after five years of restoration work. Big Boy No. 4014 rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration shop in ...

DENVER (KDVR) — One of the world’s largest locomotives passed through Colorado in October, operating much like it did when it was first built in the mid-1900s. The train, known as Big Boy No. 4014, ...

A HISTORIC gathering of working 1940s steam locomotives will take place on The Swanage Railway heritage line to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of steam trains in southern England. Five classic ...