If you ever manage to take a peek inside the train operator's compartment on the subway, the whole operation might strike you as kind of simple. There aren't a whole lot of controls to work with. But ...

Museum educator Tyler Trahan tours a steam locomotive in the Bob Julian Roundhouse at the N.C. Transportation Museum, explaining how coal, fire, and pressure made these machines move, the manpower ...

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 places, but ...