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 ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Green Bay's prized historic train engine is on its way back home. After a two-year hiatus at a museum in England, the locomotive named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower is being ...

A 40-acre field in Canandaigua was transformed into a mecca of wheels, whistles and water vapor as the New York Steam Engine Association Pageant of Steam chugged along Thursday. Steam engine and heavy ...

WILLMAR -- A piece of history chugged into town Saturday with a visit by the Milwaukee Road No. 261, a steam locomotive restored to the heyday of the steam-powered train. Milwaukee Road No. 261 backs ...

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 ...

From the velocipede (pictured above) to buses, vehicles powered by steam were being beta-tested throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The results were pretty weird, and hint at ...

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 ...