The Class Y trains were popular steam trains that started life in 1912, ... This train wasn't that fast, with just a top ...

It’s no exaggeration to say that steam trains changed the world. They made it possible to move people and goods further and ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them ...

Instead, this is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s and 30s experiments with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific’s oil-fired condensing turbo-electrics.

They were turned by a quartet of double-acting steam cylinders with a 19.75-inch bore and 26-inch stroke—that’s a 522.1-liter four-cylinder in car parlance—under a force of 300 psi of steam ...

Though advanced steam technology has impacted many industries, the one that it affected the most was railways. Several modern locomotives that ran on steam engines kept getting better with time ...

For 70 years, the U.S. has failed to achieve faster trains—because it refuses to do what it takes to make them work. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV Subscribe Subscribe ...

The Class Y trains were popular steam trains that started life in 1912, but they weren't among the most powerful at first. That changed with the introduction of the Y6a model.