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 ...

Q: Why are the flanges on model steam engine drive wheels so much larger than on the prototypes? Is it because the models don ...

There is either a very mistaken notion among mechanics generally concerning the power of locomotives ... opinion will throw light on the subject. G. B. F. Canton, N. Y., April, 1858.

The group is the Texas Railway Preservation Association (TRPA), and its existence is dedicated to ensuring that Southern Pacific 982, a 105-year-old steam locomotive that has lived in Houston for ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is in Kansas City, Missouri. Union Pacific’s No. 4014, aka “Big Boy,” arrived at Union Station Tuesday evening and ...

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Swanage Railway said the event could not go ahead "due to a combination of unforeseen circumstances and the last minute unavailability of the visiting locomotives earmarked to attend". The gala ...

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Scale AI was conceived in 2016 as a one-stop shop for supplying human labor to perform tasks that could not be done by algorithms — essentially, the antithesis of AI. Cofounders Alexandr Wang ...

Kenny G wants you to know that he doesn’t like the term “smooth jazz.” “For me,” the saxophonist says in his new memoir, “Life in the Key of G,” “it evokes a feeling of something ...

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