There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few ...

Full-sized Murray designs, such as the Salamanca, became the first commercially viable steam locomotives, and were built around the same time as the model. At least two other models of the same ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them ...

The model BDI and model PL locomotive that America produced in 1907 is one of the oldest steam locomotives in the world at present; the model SL 7 locomotive that our museum collects was made by ...

experts have been able to get a glimpse of the impressive engineering design of the mini prototype of a pioneering early steam locomotive. The images show how the once working model replicated the ...