Train design didn’t change gradually after World War II, it changed suddenly. A catastrophic boiler explosion in 1948 exposed the hidden dangers of steam locomotives. Extreme pressure, human error, ...

Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...

The time was a century ago for the SWO officer corps to accept that the future had arrived, and it is past high time for them ...

When the locomotives met, their boilers exploded almost simultaneously, hurling metal fragments and debris high into the air.

A roughly half-acre parcel in downtown Hartford that was once eyed for a 100,000-square-foot office building has been sold to Hartford Steam Boiler. A deed received by the city on Nov. 20 shows the ...