SPRINGFIELD, Wis. (AP) — The American Locomotive Co. was once one of the largest builders of steam engines in the world. In 1907, six years after the New York company was formed by a merger of the ...

"In the steam engine hobby, it has a huge legacy. It's like the Titanic of the tractors. I mean it was the biggest one ever produced and none of them survived." That's the way Kory Anderson describes ...

Few would assume that acquiring a rusting 1937 steam locomotive from a museum in Kansas represents a step forward for clean energy. But a collaboration between the University of Minnesota’s Institute ...

SPENCER— The steam locomotive is like a living thing, volunteer Lindsay Abee said as he stood near the tracks where Lehigh Valley Coal Engine No. 126 waited for its next trip. “You can feel the energy ...

Chicago & North Western No. 1385, a steam engine under restoration at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, as it looked on Aug. 17, 2011.