ANDOVER, S.D. - “In the steam engine hobby, it has a huge legacy. It’s like the Titanic of the tractors. I mean, it was the biggest one ever produced and none of them survived.” That’s the way Kory ...

Kim Besecker doesn’t hide his hobby. Instead, passersby can see it sitting in the yard near his house. Then again, it’s hard to hide several 26,000-pound steam engines. The Arcanum man says his ...

Ken Beselin, 84, is a retired marine engineer with the state of Alaska. Today he builds replica steamboat engines. "I was always rather handy with my hands," he said. "And I was always around ships." ...

EDGAR – By noon Saturday, Jarret Miles-Kroening, 15, of Edgar had been working with two almost century-old steam engines for more than six hours, getting them ready for the spectators wanting to see ...

MONROEVILLE, Ind. (WANE) — Members of The Machinist Group of Northeast Indiana showed off their collections at the 26th annual Pete Menger Model Engine and Hobby Show. According to a press release, ...

The introduction of several advanced, efficient, and more robust power options over the years has largely overshadowed steam ...

FOREST CITY — A strong desire to learn more about the hobby of steam engineering drew participants of many backgrounds and levels of ability to Heritage Park of North Iowa, May 19-20. The park, in ...

Technology tends to have a way of becoming smaller as it evolves. The ever-convenient microchip and lithium-ion battery serve in tandem as the brains of so many devices today, and their sleek and ...