“With today’s safety rules I don’t think many parents would hand them out today,” he said. Fifty-one years later, Mr Edwards has amassed one of the biggest scale model steam engine collections in the ...

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WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The Northeast Large Scale Train Show, sponsored by the Amherst Railway Society is coming to the Eastern State Exposition fairgrounds April 28 and 29. Just like ...

If engineering choices a hundred years ago had been only slightly different, we could have ended up in a world full of steam engines rather than internal combustion engines. For now, though, steam ...

A train buff’s stunning collection of model steam engines that he used to drive around his back garden is set to sell for £250,000. The late Jack Salem was a steam train enthusiast and over a 40-year ...

Before there was a Disneyland Railroad, Walt Disney had his own miniature live steam railroad at his home in Holmby Hills. The Carolwood Pacific Railroad, named after the street where the home was on, ...

I thought I knew the meaning of the word “envy”. That was before I clapped eyes on Pete Waterman’s unique collection of model steam engines. I turned as green as my Yorkshire miners’ tie gazing at ...

Bobbi Horr, 5, Holton, inspects a scale model steam engine built by Ed Schweder, of St. Joseph, Mo., Saturday at the McLouth Threshing Bee. The 52nd annual threshing bee in McLouth was bittersweet for ...

Whistles tooted and steam hissed as members of the Los Angeles Live Steamers Museum celebrated its 60th anniversary over Memorial Day weekend. Walt Disney helped found the museum, along with others, ...

British model steam engine maker Mamod is enjoying a surge in the value of its collectables, despite the company facing challenges to survive. Nostalgia for a bygone age is behind the popularity of ...

NAGOYA -- A life-sized cardboard mockup of a C62 steam locomotive has been assembled in the lobby of Chukyo TV Broadcasting Co. in this city's Nakamura Ward as a part of a railway event running Nov. 2 ...