Could the steam engine be on its way back? The romance of the steam train has never gone but is the old technology with a few tweaks possibly the new technology?"In 1946 Paul Kiefer, chief mechanical engineer of...
Restaurant grease, canola oil and soy are fueling a new generation of trains, with a biodiesel train operating in the UK and a new one taking test runs in Washington over the summer. The fuel is a 25-per-cent...
Mike McMahon wrote a song a while back which he called Freight Train and said it reminds him of his now deceased CP Rail engineer friend Loni Plascko, and Mike was thinking it might be fitting to play at his...
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A bit of an update on an earlier item. At the back end of 2006, film director Richard (Dick) Lester revisited the Minehead Branch with a BBCTV film crew. The West Somerset Railway laid on a special steam train -...
Ex-SDJR 2-8-0 no 88 - currently finished in the famous Prussian Blue - is to visit two heritage railways in 2007. So report the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust. The prussian blue liveried engine will be...
"BANGKOK, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The locomotive of a passenger train fell into the Yom river after the train derailed and crashed into a mountain in Thai northern province of Phrae on Thursday night, a local source told Xinhua.b
The accident occurred at about 8:00 p.m. local...
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