A great example that may surprise the unfamiliar is that of model train carriages, such as coal cars, that are capable of both receiving and dumping a load at various points on a model layout.

Freight trains hauling coal are still a familiar sight in Colorado, even as the state and country phase out the dirty fossil ...

by the use of wood for locomotive fuel, we long ago (when no other kind was used) repeatedly directed attention to the substitution of coal for wood on our railroads Stubborn at one period in ...

The trains also revolutionized the transportation of coal in places like Leeds, as an engine could haul more than 20 times its own weight, powered by steam. The scans of the model were carried out ...

Furness Railway No 20, Britain’s oldest working steam locomotive built in 1863, will headline Tanfield Railway’s 300th ...