Q: I need help identifying a specific Pennsylvania RR steam engine. The number on the cab was 1299. What class was this ...

Model steam engines have intrigued hackers and makers for over 100 years. Many of us have seen old steam engine models up for sale at garage sales and various internet auction sites. The problem ...

Of late years the attention of inventors has been di-rf S,ed to the application of steam to the suction and forcing of water in fire engines ; and many powerful fire engines worked exclusively by ...

One such addition is a small canon on top of the Pirate Puffer's cab that can "fire chocolate balls at pedestrians", he said. Bryan Luxford learned to drive model steam engines at the age of eight ...

This steam fire engine was horse drawn. It was used for transferring water from lakes on the Tehidy Estate in Cornwall. Nowadays fire engines have an emergency response of just minutes from the ...