Another simple and inexpensive kit that works well as a team project is the Exploring Kid Steam Engine Kit, which also retails for $29.99.This mostly plastic kit, when assembled, includes a boiler ...

Though advanced steam technology has impacted many industries, the one that it affected the most was railways. Several modern locomotives that ran on steam engines kept getting better with time ...

Steam Engine #18 is back on the rails again at the Arcade & Attica Railroad. The 104-year-old locomotive underwent a seven-year restoration effort by the railroad.

Big Boy No. 4014 is one of 25 large steam engines — weighing about 1.2 million pounds, measuring 132 feet long and boasting 7,000 horsepower — that the Union Pacific Railroad built during ...