Locomotive transport begins with departure of coal tender

The relocation of the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railway steam engine displayed near 14th Street West has begun as the coal tender attached to the locomotive displayed in Huntington since 1962 was ...
Los Angeles Times

Letting Off Steam Into the Chinese Sunset

TONGCHUAN, China — Liberation 2368 is a beautiful beast living on borrowed time. On most days, the huffing, puffing steam engine pants back and forth through the honey-colored hillsides of central ...
WUWM

Departing soon from the railroad track of the Milwaukee County Zoo: The last coal-fired locomotive

There are just a couple days left to ride the last coal-fired steam locomotive at the Milwaukee County Zoo—one of the days being this coming Saturday, Sept. 14. Partly for environmental reasons, the ...
Xinhua

Feature: The last of the steam train drivers

While it is full steam ahead for the world's longest high-speed rail network, the last steam engine drivers in remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are coming to the end of the line. Carrying coal ...
Global Times

Steam locomotive become online sensation despite era being nearly over

It never occurred to Li He, a 55-year-old steam locomotive driver who works in Sandaoling, Hami Prefecture in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, that the place where he had been ...
Xinhua

Feature: The last of the steam train drivers

Photo taken on Jan. 19, 2018 shows assistant driver Ma Xinsheng (front) checking the operation of the locomotive at Sandaoling coal mine area in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous ...