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A BLAST from the past steamed into Portsmouth with the arrival of two iconic 1940s steam trains, ready to give passengers a day out to remember. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. >> In its prime, a massive steam locomotive built in Schenectady, N.Y., known as Big Boy No. 4014 was a moving eruption of smoke and vapor, a 6,300-horsepower brute dragging heavy ...

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 ...

THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE ENERGY STORY: How These Locomotives Used Energy and What Was Done to Make Them More Efficient. By Walter Simpson. The Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society, Inc. Hardcover, 144 ...

Eight steam engines will gather at a historic railway line, in a sight not seen in the south of England for more than 50 years. Most of the 1940s Bulleid Pacific class steam locomotives will chug ...

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A HISTORIC gathering of working 1940s steam locomotives will take place on The Swanage Railway heritage line to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of steam trains in southern England. Five classic ...

DENVER (KDVR) — One of the world’s largest locomotives passed through Colorado in October, operating much like it did when it was first built in the mid-1900s. The train, known as Big Boy No. 4014, ...