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At step 28, the road switcher topped out at 80 smph. That's 15 mph faster than the prototype maximum speed. Then I took the locomotive over to the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy State Line Route ...

The full-size 2155 was used in passenger service, so it should have a steam generator ... the road switcher topped out at 80 smph. That’s 15 mph faster than the prototype maximum speed. Then I took ...

"There's a lot of excitement," Andy Spinelli, president of the museum, said this week. "We still have a lot of work to do, ...

Freezing drizzle through the early morning is resulting in very slippery road conditions Thursday in the Milwaukee area, according to the National Weather Service. By around 6:30 a.m. Thursday ...

In Milwaukee, snowfall chances are highest between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. Wednesday. Here are the latest on road conditions around Milwaukee on Wednesday. What are the road conditions in and around ...

On a steamy June night in 1938, a thunder cloud parked itself over the badlands near Terry in eastern Montana, unleashing a torrent of rain that sent roiling waters raging ...

Milwaukee native Ira Madison III is a cultural ... "My book is sort of like a road trip," Madison says. "You're making a lot of different stops along the way, but you're eventually going to ...

QUESTION: Why is George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 regarded as the first steam locomotive? What about Richard Trevithick’s Penydarren? Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 is significant because ...

Hy-polite Uhry, and Henry A. Luttgens, both of Patterson, N. J., for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive engines for the purpose of improving the working of steam in cylinders ...

CN anticipates this initiative to further progress hybrid locomotive technology. Credit: Svetlana123/Shutterstock. Canadian National Railway (CN) has initiated a ...