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 ...

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 with ...

"In the steam engine hobby, it has a huge legacy. It's like the Titanic of the tractors. I mean it was the biggest one ever produced and none of them survived." That's the way Kory Anderson describes ...

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) - It’s not every day someone unearths pieces of Limestone County’s history, but Tommy Mitchell recently did just that with the help of a metal detector. Mitchell, a Limestone native ...

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, ...

It is 1914. One machine pumps all the water into homes and other buildings for public consumption. It is a steam-powered, water-pumping engine that runs nonstop. As the water from a reservoir 300 feet ...

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.

Sep. 27—Railroad fans who enjoy steam engines have one last opportunity this weekend to ride in a train powered by Abilene's Santa Fe 3415 locomotive before it is taken out of service for required ...