In These Times

Lessons from the Original War on Coal: Class Conflict and the Fossil Economy

They’d steal our bodies, selves, and soul. ‘Tis COAL that makes our Britain great, Upholds our commerce and our state. He was one of many from that period to celebrate the virtues of coal — and the ...
The Durango Herald

One of world’s largest steam engines converted from coal to oil

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive ...
PBS

How the war in Ukraine is threatening Britain’s historic steam engines

The war in Ukraine has had an effect on many aspects of life all around the world. Inflation, especially in the price of coal, is jeopardizing the future of some of Britain’s living and breathing ...
The Durango Herald

Last coal-fired engine departs Durango train station, marking end of an era

Saturday marked the bittersweet end of an era for Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad with the last departure of the railroad’s sole remaining coal-burning locomotive, Engine No. 481. The last ...
The Washington Post

Last Gasp for China's Steam Engines

TONGCHUAN, China -- Liberation 2368 is a beautiful beast living on borrowed time. On most days, the huffing, puffing steam engine pants back and forth through the honey-colored hillsides of central ...
The Conversation

Even as the fusion era dawns, we’re still in the Steam Age

Andreas Helwig receives funding from Federal Government Department of Education SURF and RRC research grants. Steam locomotives clattering along railway tracks. Paddle steamers churning down the ...