There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few ...

In his 1890 Landscape at Auvers after the rain, a locomotive trails steam across a mosaic of fields, as a horse and cart trudge in the opposite direction. For one art movement in particular — Italy’s ...

Real trains were a major mode of transportation for my parents. Many boys in my generation spent hours engaged with model ...

They employed him as an erector of steam engines in Cornwall, pumping water from the tin mines. He was fascinated by steam power, and while living in Redruth he experimented with the idea of using ...