A train buff’s stunning collection of model steam engines that he used to drive around his back garden is set to sell for £250,000. The late Jack Salem was a steam train enthusiast and over a 40-year ...

“With today’s safety rules I don’t think many parents would hand them out today,” he said. Fifty-one years later, Mr Edwards has amassed one of the biggest scale model steam engine collections in the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This toy steam engine was ...

Cherry Hill, leading model engineer who made working steam-powered locomotives at 1:16 scale Her models could contain more than 5,000 parts: ‘Every nut and bolt is made in my workshop, so a full model ...

A lifelong steam train fan has treated himself to a miniature traction engine which he uses to drive himself and friends around. The fully licensed and roadworthy vehicle is a scale model of a Burrell ...

If engineering choices a hundred years ago had been only slightly different, we could have ended up in a world full of steam engines rather than internal combustion engines. For now, though, steam ...

British model steam engine maker Mamod is enjoying a surge in the value of its collectables, despite the company facing challenges to survive. Nostalgia for a bygone age is behind the popularity of ...

LOS ANGELES The whistle blows as the steam engine starts out on the main line with passengers on board, on the top of the cars. That’s right – the top of the cars. This is the Los Angeles Live ...

LOS ANGELES The whistle blows as the steam engine starts out on the main line with passengers on board, on the top of the cars. That’s right – the top of the cars. This is the Los Angeles Live ...

If you were a very lucky child, and lived in Victorian England, someone might have given you a Birmingham Dribbler. This was an incredibly exciting toy. Birmingham Dribblers were spirit-fired steam ...

Editor's note: This is the second installment in a series of stories featuring local collectors. Check each Tuesday print edition as well as www.ourmidland.com for future installments. For Brandon ...