Kim Besecker doesn’t hide his hobby. Instead, passersby can see it sitting in the yard near his house. Then again, it’s hard to hide several 26,000-pound steam engines. The Arcanum man says his ...

In an unusual sort-of time-traveling-industrial-kinship, a historic Bay Area train steam engine in need of new parts is getting a helping hand from an equally historic gold country foundry. The ...

Technology tends to have a way of becoming smaller as it evolves. The ever-convenient microchip and lithium-ion battery serve in tandem as the brains of so many devices today, and their sleek and ...

A massive boiler whose steam could be channeled through a long hose to steam-fed farm machines, toys, utility vehicles and other steam-powered apparatus is tended by association member Tom Kouttron, ...

Two unique boiler parts essential for the restoration of a steam engine have been stolen by metal thieves in a raid on a Shropshire heritage railway – with the fear they will be sold off as scrap.