The tiny steam engines chug by painstakingly re-created hotels, lumber yards and stations, past centimeter-high citizens in period clothing of the tiny frontier towns. No detail is too small to be ...

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 ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them that ...