The train was built in 1923 but modified in Reading shops in 1945, the first of 30 engines made to assist with the World War ...

Though we’re currently in the thrall of another, newer mode of transport—the relatively cheap, small and free-ranging ... the States’ first steam locomotive, hundreds more soon sprang ...

The unique status of American steam trains can only be matched by the nation’s ancient redwood forests – another important piece of heritage. At first, however, steam trains were the “enemy ...

for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive engines for the purpose ... the exhaust side by the obstruction which is, by small particles of water, imposed upon the efflux of steam ...

CLEVELAND - The American Steam Railroad Preservation Association's restoration of Reading Co. T-1 No. 2100 has reached a major milestone with successful steam tests of the locomotive. The tests of ...

Steam locomotives have several times attained speeds of from 105 to 120 miles an hour over distances of less than eight miles. But the fastest time made regularly on American steam roads is 75 to ...