The sight of these powerful locomotives ... reduced to scrap. Their era had passed, their power replaced by newer, more efficient technologies. Yet, the memory of those steam-powered giants ...
If you’ve been near a working steam locomotive, you know the sounds ... How a giant machine that escaped the scrap heap could… Crew and fans exchanged waves and smiles while someone shouted ...
Thus, instead of locomotives with 18 x 24-inch cylinders and 1,200 to 1,300 square feet of heating surface, and 160 pounds of steam pressure ... they would be sent to the scrap heap.
DORAL, Fla. — Two years ago, Miami-Dade County awoke to a garbage nightmare. Both of the county landfills were nearly full, ...
Some were piles of scrap. The museum had been looted and the old trains had been stripped for sale on Syria ... At his age, his father and uncle were already learning how to operate a steam engine. “I ...
Some were piles of scrap. The museum had been looted and the old trains had been stripped for ... uncle were already learning how to operate a steam engine. “I hope there will soon be job ...
Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the ...
Some were piles of scrap. The museum had been looted and the old trains had been stripped for ... uncle were already learning how to operate a steam engine. “I hope there will soon be job ...
They rode on top of trains to work the brakes. Faulty boiler equipment released steam scalding enough to ... or a load of scrap, or a bundle of pipes; watch out for the hot cinder coming down ...