While one may not see a steam engine tractor in use on many farms these days, the history of farming is thriving in Boonville. Hundreds of antique tractors, trucks and cars filled the Brady ...
Cincinnati’s wonderful Fire Museum on Court Street continually burnishes our city’s two fire-fighting claims to fame: Cincinnati created the first professional fire department in the United States in ...
The first thing you might notice about the restored locomotive departing from Old Sacramento is the billowing cloud of steam pouring out of the shiny, black engine, stamped with the name Granite Rock ...
EDGAR, Wis. (WSAW) - Trains, tractors, and other antique farming equipment are on display now in Edgar for the annual Edgar Steam Show. For 51 years, Edgar has been a go-to place for teaching people ...
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The National Museum of Industrial History's 115-ton stationary steam engine, which was built 105 years ago in Buffalo, is working again. The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, museum had worked ...
A gigantic steam engine could soon run on the railroad tracks in Nashville once again. People working to revive the train said that the breath-taking sight of a steam engine huffing and puffing along ...
The steam engine is often credited as one of the most transformative inventions in human history. It laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution, revolutionised transport, and shifted the ...
MIDDLE RIDGE — From where it sits alongside Hwy. 33, the Middle Ridge History Park’s nearly 100-year-old Keck-Gonnerman steam tractor could be easily confused for a train engine. But when 23-year-old ...
Editor's note: This is the 23rd of a series of stories that will be featured in the Pensacola News Journal to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Escambia County. Look for these stories each Monday in ...
In the middle of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn is the 25-acre Pratt Institute campus, a gorgeous collection of landmarked buildings amidst open green space. On the first floor of East Hall (originally the ...
It is big. And loud. Furthermore, it belches steam. "It's the smell," says railroad fanatic Sam Sargent about a 1940s train engine known as the Union Pacific Big Boy, the largest, heaviest and most ...