MISSOULA, Mont. — A piece of Montana history is being restored here in Missoula. Engine #7 served the Missoula logging valley in the past but now volunteers are trying to bring it back with a new ...

A small group in the foothills of Mount Rainier has been tasked since the 1980s with running a tourist railroad there. It also has a larger goal of preserving some part of the logging era that helped ...

We imagine loggers as burly men in calk boots, wool shirts and pants trimmed nearly to their boot tops to keep them from snagging on the brush and leftover bramble of their work. We don’t think of ...

In operation for more than seven decades, equipped with a 440-hp steam engine, and capable of cutting logs as large as 8 feet across, Oregon's Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. is a unique slice of American ...

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On Saturday, May 13, visitors to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland can take a ride on an 111-year-old steam locomotive. Nowadays, most trains are electric or diesel-powered, but ...

Working model, scale 1:12, of twin-cylinder steam driven double trunk screw engines, as extensively used for screw propulsion on the HMS 'Minotaur' and 'Northumberland' (1865-1868), construction ...