Hackaday

Building A Steam Loco These Days Is Nothing But Hacks

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten ...
The Drive

Steam Train Fanatics Are Rebuilding This Mythical Speed Record-Chaser From Blueprints

In November of 1945, the Pennsylvania Railroad rolled out the T1: the first of its new class of high-speed steam locomotives. Penned by the same hand that gave us the Coke bottle, the T1 was built ...
Penn Live

Pa. museum to build climate-controlled building to better protect historic exhibits

After years of outdoor deterioration, six steam locomotives will finally have protection from the elements in a new facility. Construction is expected to begin on the building this month at the ...
phillyvoice.com

Century-old, steam-powered train built in Philadelphia restored as 'living museum' in central Pennsylvania

The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...
insider.si.edu

Building a Lima locomotive : the steam locomotive construction process of Lima Locomotive Works during 1924 / Scott D. Trostel

A rare glimpse inside of Lima Locomotive Works in 1924, which reveals the complex art of steam railroad locomotive construction. siris_sil_488592 ...
Railway Age

U.K.: Hydrogen-Fueled Steam Freight Locomotive Conversion Planned

British startup Steamology has secured a contract to test its hydrogen-fueled steam traction system in a converted Freightliner Group (a Genesee & Wyoming subsidiary) freight locomotive. Funded ...
Standard-Examiner

Union Pacific’s Big Boy steam locomotive returns to Ogden as part of Westward Bound Tour

OGDEN — A legendary locomotive made its return to Ogden this weekend. Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 made a weekend stop that drew thousands of visitors of all ages to Union Station from its arrival ...