One of world’s largest steam engines converted from coal to oil By Mead Gruver. Wednesday, May 8, 2019 2:36 PM Updated Wednesday, May. 8, 2019 2:37 PM.

A steam engine can run faster or slower at the boss’s discretion, and steam-powered mills need not be built along a riverbank. Coal may be a physical object that must be mined and transported ...

The organisers of Kent’s largest steam engine rally have been trialling using olive stones to fuel some of their vintage vehicles. The alternative to traditional coal is one of the options being ...

Huber steam tractors could burn straw or coal; this one took 100 to 150 pounds of coal per hour. This Huber Steam Traction Engine has seen a light workload, and may have been used to power a sawmill.

The last of the coal-powered steam engines operational along the Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) route have been retired and are to be exhibited to the public at the Udhagamandalam and Coimbatore ...

His latest engine (his fourth by the way) weighs in at a whopping 4,500 pounds and is a fully-functional, coal-burning steam locomotive that took Friend just seven months to build.

An industrial steam engine last used to haul coal in the 1970s has been "rediscovered" at a convent in the east of England. It was thought the 1929 locomotive, called "Newstead", had been scrapped.