The Iron Mule

Ok all you hawk-eyed experts out there, It’s pop quiz time at the Mule School. This will be a timed exam and you only have until the end of...

Steam locomotives come to life in a special way at night. They seem to be totally in their element surrounded by darkness. Rolling out of ...

In the dog eat dog world of corporate mergers and acquisitions, Fairbanks-Morse has to be counted a survivor. The company traces it’s orig...

Or does it? In an excerpt from his book about the B.F. Avery and Sons Company posted at bfavery.net , Luther “Dan” Thomas suggest that the...

“I remember that engine as though I had seen it only yesterday, for it was the first vehicle other than horse drawn that I had ever seen.”...