To achieve variable torque, they employed superchargers driven by a set of even-smaller ... as the bright future for the railway alongside steam locomotives that were then very much still in ...

Cass Scenic Railroad State Park is a natural gem that provides a glimpse into the arduous lifestyles of sawyers in the early 1900s — a time when large steam-driven locomotives were an essential ...

This week has seen the start of testing at speed for the world’s first operational steam locomotive to be fitted with ETCS ...

The museum has one of those too, but by the 1960s, modern day hydraulic excavators started replacing all the cable-driven shovels ... started collecting steam engines, locomotives and antique ...

There is either a very mistaken notion among mechanics generally concerning the power of locomotives ... by multiplying the pressure of the steam per inch on the area of piston into the velocity ...

The annual carbon footprint reduction linked to the use of biofuel for steam and diesel locomotives is comparably ... the operations of its steam-driven counterpart. The Environment Ministry ...

Network Rail has spent around £9 million on the pathfinder project which was formally launched in 2021. Part of the reason it ...

Instead, this is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s and 30s experiments with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific’s oil-fired condensing turbo-electrics. The new idea here ...

The 0-4-0 tender locomotive was one of a batch of eight locomotives constructed for the Furness Railway and is now kept on site at Ribble Steam Railway, and appears at special events. The rapid ...