Regular smokeless coal lacks the necessary energy density and can damage steam engines. The first delivery is expected next week, but like all coal products, its properties will need to be assessed.

He developed several new forms of photographic equipment, notably rigging 43 flash bulbs to fire simultaneously so as to capture a steam locomotive at night. Of his preference for shooting after dark ...

Coal-fired steam train number 90 takes off on the Strasburg Rail Road, spewing black smoke as its big wheels turn and clank on the tracks. The powerful locomotive, built in 1924, ...

Train 2522 is a hulking figure of rusting black metal, echoing back to its heyday when the train hauled tons of coal throughout the state. For more than half a century, children played on the train at ...

A 50-car train has delivered the last load of coal to the 120-year-old Perry K Steam Plant in downtown Indianapolis. Citizens Energy Group vice president of energy operations Chris Braun said once ...

Steam trains. Back in their day they were the main mode of transportation for millions of people. They used to chug through cities and across the countryside, leaving billowing columns of white ...

Our train is heavily loaded, and No85 makes hard work of it on the 1-in-58 incline, five miles up the valley of the river Worth and Bridgeton beck, to the Pennine village of Oxenhope.

An old steam locomotive that used to carry coal — dubbed "black diamonds" — and local passengers between Kushiro and Yubetsu Coal Mine in the city's Akan district will be brought to the Kanto ...

A steam train in south Wales is using coal transported from Siberia, rather than from its local mine three miles away, due to regulations about how the coal can be transported.

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad announced Wednesday it will delay resuming its coal-fired steam-train passenger service until at least July 12. The decision is to “ensure guest ...

Smoke from a steam train billows into Segontium Terrace. When clean, Welsh steam coal was available, it wasn't a major issue for residents (Image: Arwyn Roberts/North Wales Live). Paul Lewin, the ...