“The other thing that Mallard had was streamlined steam passages, which caused less back pressure from steam once used.” The locomotive also had something few classes of locomotives ...

But while diesels were in their infancy, Alco continued to build and improve on steam locomotives. A streamlined locomotive named Hiawatha was built for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific ...

But the queen of all Norfolk and Western Railway’s steam locomotives — the streamlined 611 — will be running weekend excursions between Goshen and Staunton from October 6 to November 5. And that ...

The city acquired the engines through donations. Oregon Railroad & Navigation No. 197: Built in 1905 by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the E. H. Harriman rail empire that later merged into the Union ...

The new trains, pulled by the world’s most powerful streamlined steam locomotives, feature a color scheme of wide black, orange and red stripes sweeping their entire length. They each carry 12 ...

In November of 1945, the Pennsylvania Railroad rolled out the T1: the first of its new class of high-speed steam locomotives ... Between that and a streamlined body designed by Raymond Loewy ...

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They started steaming it up on Wednesday. The SP 4449 is a streamlined steam locomotive built in 1941 and donated to the city in 1958, after which it was restored by volunteers. It has also been ...

Conceived and built in 1930 by the German rail company Deutsche Reichsbahn, the Schienenzeppelin was a design alternative to the streamlined steam locomotives of its day. It was a slick and ...