Plus, steam and diesel locomotives, passenger and freight cars, streetcars and over 250000 artifacts (permanent). Wednesdays to Sundays, 10 am to 5 pm ...

It's a problem you might not think exists with trains -- but asbestos made more than two dozen pieces at Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton an environmental hazard.  Now, the work to remove the asbestos and restore the pieces in question has nearly reached the midway point.

Steam traction engines - a type of agricultural tractor powered by steam - were used extensively in Canada in the late 1800s and early 1900s. ...

"The spotlight section allows us to share the history of our most popular artifacts, such as Samson the steam locomotive," says Greenaway. ...

"Inside every man's breast beats the heart of a steam locomotive," said Bowler, 71, of Elk Grove, a retired Sacramento County sheriff's deputy and state ...

... including a new addition, the CP Museum Car. The 80-year-old train is one of only a handful of preserved steam locomotives operating in North America.

I helped restore the nation's second-most-powerful operating steam locomotive and once owned five full-sized passenger cars to run with that locomotive. ...

Steam traction engines - a type of agricultural tractor powered by steam - were used extensively in Canada in the late 1800s and early 1900s. ...

Plus, steam and diesel locomotives, passenger and freight cars, streetcars and over 250000 artifacts (permanent). Wednesdays to Sundays, 10 am to 5 pm ...

"The spotlight section allows us to share the history of our most popular artifacts, such as Samson the steam locomotive," says Greenaway. ...

In May 2003 I had the good fortune of being invited on a 3 day shakedown cruise from Calgary to the Rockies and back onboard the Canadian Pacific Hudson steam locomotive #2816 in advance of a major across Canada tour for the locomotive. ...

The Canadian Pacific Railway issue whistle was fitted 15 July 1937 for the unveiling and naming. The CPR-type bell fitted was steam operated and was actually used, as a photograph from August 19, 1939, illustrates. Locomotive 4489 ...

This cut down the travel-time from cities such as Chicago in the East, to Los Angeles and San Francisco in the West, from several weeks or even months by wagon-train…to a few days by steam-powered locomotive. .... Subways continue to be popular in countries where snow can affect above-ground railroad traffic, such as in Russia, Germany and Canada. While today subways are seen as modern, bright, fast and wonderful, or at times, a pain in the ass when your train comes late ...

Canada's HCW steam locomotive has long carried an aura of old-fashioned romance.

In 1942, connected the Alaska Highway from Richardson Highway to the Canadian road network, allowing road travel from the rest of the United States Fairbanks, which is considered the unofficial end of the road. Since the Second World War, ... The result was the Tanana Mines Railway, which began operations in September 1905, using what had been the first steam locomotive in the Territory Yukon. In 1907, the railroad was reorganized and named the Tanana Valley Railroad. ...