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In this video, I restore a rusty steam engine toy produced by Jean Comby "JC Unis France" around 1950. The toy was non-functional due to a full water tank blocked by a white substance, likely ...
This toy steam engine was made by an unknown German company during the early 20th century. The toy consists of a horizontal boiler with chimney on a simulated brickwork firebox. The horizontal slide ...
The steam engine-powered narrow-gauge railway known as the toy train or Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR), a train service from the New Jalpaiguri railhead near Siliguri to the hill station of ...
Steam trains could be facing the end of the line amid plans to abolish traditional railway traffic light-style signals.
The largest steam locomotive in the world with the catchy name to match, Union Pacific Railroad's Big Boy locomotive No. 4014, is planning an overnight stop in Jefferson City on the homeward leg ...
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Plans to send the Norfolk & Western Class J 611 rolling down the rails again remain on track. The classic steam engine, prize possession of the Virginia Museum of ...
In toy steam engines, a heating source is introduced into the firebox below the boiler (early toys used lit wicks fueled by denatured alcohol, later toys used electricity) which heated the water to ...