Charles Lester III knew from a very early age that his grandfather’s seven-foot wooden model of a steam locomotive was something to be looked at, not played with. “My father used to pile things up in ...

Reading Railroad apprentices working in shops in Reading and St. Clair built a scale model of a locomotive for the New York World’s Fair in 1939. Construction of the Pacific Type G-1 steam locomotive ...

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This is a model of the Stourbridge Lion, the first steam locomotive to operate in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the first to operate outside of Britain. The model was based on the replica ...