Compared to their traditional reciprocating rod-driven counterparts, geared steam locomotives can be seen as “oddballs” to ...

A 1949 placement of six narrow-gauged locomotives for the Newfoundland Railway became the final 2-8-2s to be built in North America, with the Canadian Pacific Railway ordering the last in standard ...

A steam locomotive has failed to complete what was ... station having had to travel at about 20mph (32km/h) for the last seven miles of its journey. The locomotive was built in 1951.