Steam Locomotive Information

We have begun offering an e-mail delivered newsletter from our website. You may have noticed the sign-up pop up when you visit the site. We'll be sending out a monthly newsletter to our subscribers, detailing interesting steam preservation/restoration news, site events and other things. Hopefully yo...

For quite some time, this phpBB installation has been misconfigured in such a way that it was virtually impossible to register for an account. That has been fixed. My apologies.

We've switched our Wordpress blog to an annual plan. This got rid of advertisements on the blog, and provided us with a bunch of new features. I intend to use the blog a great deal in coming months to discuss what is being done with the site.

We've added a new feature to the site to display (where available) the date a locomotive's photo was taken. Please see the following article for more information: https://steaminfo.wordpress.com/2022/07/06/date-of-photo/

As of about 1 pm this afternoon, we have photos of 14,000 different steam locomotives. Not terribly exciting, but there it is.

Many of you have noticed the abbreviations system that has been added to the locomotive viewer. It works quite well, except for one small detail: Some abbreviations have different meanings in different parts of the world. For example CR is Chinal Rail (in China) and Central Railway (in India). I've ...

For eight locomotives in Germany, their location was listed as 'Westfälisches Industriemusm'. This has been corrected to 'Westfälisches Industriemuseum'

Jeff Terry, of Lineside Legacy fame, locomotive engineer extraordinaire, trainer of engineers and a contributing editor to our site, today added some wonderful photography for locomotives in Maine. You can see them and his other works at: https://www.steamlocomotive.info/photobrowse.cfm?bn=Jeff%20Te...

Each individual locomotive can have an individual map to its location. These maps can be accessed by clicking on the globe in the upper right hand corner of the locomotive's display page. Several questions have been offered recently, about these maps, and I'd like to answer them here. 1. If a locomo...

A lot of changes to the website are in the works, and a majority of them won't be visible to the site visitor. I'm rewriting/upgrading the administrative interface that lets our editors maintain the site and the underlying database. This, I think, will help to insure that the site is as up-to-date a...