The decades-long effort to advance the design and technology of steam locomotives constantly circled back to the idea of ...

Which is faster—the steam or electric locomotive? On the face of the latest returns, the “juice” seems to have it. At Erie, Pa., last week a speed of 105 miles an hour was attained over a ...

an important change from steam to electric traction was made on a 34-mile stretch of the Rochester division of the Erie Railroad. The same month, also, saw the inauguration of electric operation ...

This will allow it to be navigated by steam propellers ... to the seaboard without the aid of the enlarged Erie Canal, and further, no railroad can ever compete with it in cheapness or expedition.

ERIE — Contract negotiations between the country’s largest locomotive manufacturer and its striking union workers continued in Erie on Thursday, nearly two months after some 1,400 people ...