Oh [Rodger Cleye]! You had us at “unicycle, duct tape, styrofoam, and tie wraps”. But watching the horse-bike in action (video below) is just about enough for us to go out and make one ourselves.

A new life for a historic locomotive in Elkhart. Caption: ...

The tractive force of these locomotives working compound, is 32,429 pounds, and simple 42,834 pounds. An interesting innovation is the adoption of mechanical stokers. On the Northern Railway the ...

These mechanical A devices and their peculiar ... This makes the actual power of that locomotive 560 horse power, without including the power necessary to overcome the resistance to its own ...

Tilyou's Steeplechase ride, with its mechanical horses that descended a wavy groove ... If the roller coaster was a locomotive gone truly loco, it also remained closely associated with "real ...

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers is created ... it was intended to show that rail travel was faster than by horse. Richard Trevithick builds a prototype steam locomotive at Pen-y-Darren, 1802.

HOUSTON — Big Boy is coming to Houston. The world's largest operating steam locomotive - Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014-has rolled into Houston. It will be in the Bayou City on Oct. 6 through ...

Few sports movies in the last few years have been as anticipated as "Seabiscuit." Based on Laura Hillenbrand's mega-bestseller, "Seabiscuit: An American Legend," the movie, a biopic that uses, on ...

The BloodHorse and BloodHorse.com have always been required reading in the Jones house. The BloodHorse Daily app is a fantastic resource for getting the day's most important news even more ...

Over a thousand people of all ages flocked to see Big Boy No. 4014, Union Pacific's sole operational Big Boy steam locomotive, in North Little Rock on Sunday evening. The train arrived in North ...

Horse racing's federal oversight body has named Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher among four new members of a horseman's advisory group that will provide feedback to its executive team and ...

The day will include demonstrations of track-laying, maintaining locomotives ... "This is the sort of old-fashioned mechanical engineering - not computer science or technology.