Alaska Public Media

Alaska's last steam engine retired in the '50s. These volunteers aim to get it back on track.

Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...
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Trains used as 'fire engines on rails' in hot weather

A heritage railway is using water trains to help tackle the risk of fire, after one of the driest years on record. Trains have been pulling water tanks – equipped with pumps and sprayers – to damp ...
Finger Lakes Times

LOOKING BACK: Little Seneca Falls shipped Silsby fire engines worldwide

Seneca Falls, it seems, has always been the little town that could — especially in its industrial heyday of the mid-to-late ...
WFAA8

141-year-old fire engine back on display at the Dallas Firefighter's Museum

DALLAS — The Dallas Firefighter's Museum welcomed back a key piece of North Texas history Saturday. Old Tige — one of the first steam engine fire apparatuses in Dallas — is back on display at the East ...