In the early part of the 20th century, Houston was where "seventeen railroads meet the sea." The city seal depicts a steam ...

for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive ... G is the smoke box attached to the cylin drical part of a locomotive boiler; B are the ase so formed is from 4 to 8 inches high ...

Everything that comes into your life at one point or another is by the railroad." One of the basic parts of a steam engine is the boiler, which coal is shoveled into. The boiler burns at a very high ...

The “Big Boy” steam locomotive didn’t stop in Lawrence this ... after the Union Pacific reacquired the engine and restored it as part of a celebration of the 150th anniversary of America ...