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When a Deadly Winter Storm Trapped a Luxury Passenger Train Near the Donner Pass for Three Days

High inside locomotive 6019, engineer Tom Sapunor notched the throttle forward and squinted at the track ahead—not that he ...
Alaska Public Media

Alaska's last steam engine retired in the '50s. These volunteers aim to get it back on track.

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

Working model of the double trunk steam engines, as used on HMS 'Minotaur (1867) and HMS 'Northumberland' (1868)

Working model, scale 1:12, of twin-cylinder steam driven double trunk screw engines, as extensively used for screw propulsion on the HMS 'Minotaur' and 'Northumberland' (1865-1868), construction ...
The Bucks County Herald

John Bull "annihilates time and space"

A book of mine featured on the History Channel concerns a revolutionary rescue bell lowered 240 feet to the ocean bottom off ...