Locomotion Number 1, the first steam engine to pull a passenger train on a public railway, was spotted at Wolsingham Station, ...

History of steam locomotive American Freedom Train 1, also known as the Reading Co. 2101, and its future at the B&O Railroad ...

Stockton and Darlington Railway 200 celebrations commence as Locomotion Number 1 has been returned to Hopetown, this week.

O. Winston Link was a pioneering American commercial photographer. Best known for his images of steam locomotives, Link is responsible for developing the equipment and techniques that allowed for some ...

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

Think about how mind-shattering it would have been to see something like Hero’s Engine, the first known example of a steam turbine. To see a sphere whizzing about trailing plumes of steam while ...

In 1895, newspapers around the world carried shocking photographs of a derailed steam engine that had smashed ... Donoghue tracks the catastrophe-bound train in that photo on its seven-hour ...