ENGINEERS working on a new Gresley class p2 steam locomotive are delighted to have received an early Christmas present of a pair of machined coupling rods. The project to build locomotive No 2007 ...

This article was originally published with the title “Locomotive Connecting and Parallel or Coupling-Rods” inSA Supplements Vol. 2 No. 31supp(July 1876), p.

The record-breaking locomotive, which looks much like this one, will try to set a new record for distance travelled by a miniature steam train in 24 hours. A South African team of machinists and ...

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