ASTORIA, Ore. — Pulled by a winch from a Caterpillar, the hulking frame of the No. 21 Baldwin steam locomotive engine inched its way under a boiler weighing more than 20 tons, perched on four Jenga ...

A rare glimpse inside of Lima Locomotive Works in 1924, which reveals the complex art of steam railroad locomotive construction. siris_sil_488592 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Wis. (AP) - The American Locomotive Co. was once one of the largest builders of steam engines in the world. In 1907, six years after the New York company was formed by a merger of the ...

OF all the many branches of engineering, that of locomotive engineering has been generally over-looked by the writers of text-books, and until quite recently the only works on this important subject ...

We all know General Motors as an automaker. However, GM also has a storied past in various other industries that many might not consider. In the 1930s, GM's Electro-Motive Division began producing ...