The Bishop's Waltham Railway Act received Royal Assent on July 17, 1862, authorising construction with an initial capital of £16,000. This soon proved insufficient, a common plight for small railways, ...

That locomotive, a circa-1907 Southern Railways model affectionately known as "Old Number 385," is still among the engines ... s Blue Comet passenger train of the 1930s. Those who wish to skip ...

From pioneering engines to sleek express ... into the powerful locomotives of the 1930s and ’40s, and The Workshop offers a behind-the-scenes look at train maintenance and mechanics.

Most of the freight locomotives here in America use diesel-electric technology. They have gigantic diesel engines that act as ...

Early on in beloved animation director Sylvain Chomet ’s “A Magnificent Life” (French title “Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol”), septuagenarian Monsieur Pagnol laments that to write a memoir, one needs ...

Frequently, it is mentioned that steam locomotives, ‘Flying Scotsman, ‘Mallard’ and ‘Cock o’ the North’ were built at ...

The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley ...

Deep Creek Lake, Maryland’s largest freshwater lake, lies just minutes from downtown, offering year-round recreation opportunities. Summer brings boating, fishing, and swimming in crystal-clear waters ...

The Wisconsin Automotive Museum stands as a gleaming monument to America’s love affair with the automobile, housed in a ...

Lacrosse's prestigious Jack Turnbull Award was named after a Hopkins alumnus and an Olympic phenom, whom historians described ...

The steam engines that run the toy train have turned 125, and they continue to function even today, hauling trains daily. The DHR, through its journey, climbs nearly 2,200 metres, and the vintage ...