Steam locomotives are less efficient than their more modern diesel and electric counterparts and require much greater manpower to operate and service.

Steam locomotives remained in commercial use in parts of Mexico into the late 1970s.

Steam locomotives remained in routine passenger use in South Africa until the late 1990s, but are now reserved to tourist trains.

Steam locomotives intended for freight service generally have relatively small diameter drivers, whereas passenger models have large diameter drivers ( as large as 84 inches in some cases ).

Steam locomotives built for steep rack and pinion railways frequently have the boiler tilted relative to the wheels, so that the boiler remains roughly level on steep grades.

* January 8 – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains and led to the banning of Steam locomotives in the state.

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The Age of Steam also came to Palmyra in 1857, as the first locomotives ran through the settlement on the Lebanon Valley Railroad in that year.

Steam locomotives could not operate on the Beck Hole incline ; so in the early 1860s the North Eastern Railway started construction of an alternate route which opened in 1865 – this is the route which is still in use today.

Category: Steam locomotives of the United States

Steam locomotives were first developed in Britain and dominated railway transportation until the middle of the 20th century.

Steam locomotives of the Chicago and North Western Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards, 1942.

Steam locomotives were able to pick up water from these troughs whilst still moving.

Category: Steam locomotives of Great Britain

Steam locomotives carried unadorned numbers up to five digits long.

* 1957 Steam locomotives are removed from active service in the PRR fleet.

Steam locomotives were then a new and unproven technology and were slow, expensive and unreliable.

Steam locomotives could haul more wagons and haul them faster, so in a typical working day the expensive steam engine could haul more coal than the cheaper horse.

Steam locomotives of the NYC were optimized for speed on that flat raceway of a main line, rather than slow mountain lugging.

Steam switchers were either tank locomotives or had special ( smaller ) tenders, with narrow coal bunkers and / or sloped tender decks to increase rearward visibility.

Steam locomotives operated by British Railways for the Underground ran a shuttle service from Epping to Ongar ( stopping at Blake Hall ) from 1949 to 1957, when the line was electrified and taken over by the Underground's Central Line.

Steam locomotives operated by British Rail for the London Underground ran a shuttle service from Epping to Ongar ( stopping at North Weald ) from 1949 to 1957, when the track was electrified and taken over by the Underground's Central Line.

Steam locomotives consume large quantities of water compared to the quantity of fuel, so tenders are necessary to keep the locomotive running over long distances.

These were the sole immigration records for entering the country and were prepared not by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration but by steamship companies such as the Cunard Line, the White Star Line, the North German Lloyd Line, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, the Italian Steam Navigation Company, the Red Star Line, the Holland America Line, and the Austro-American Line.

Steam turbines were also described by the Italian Giovanni Branca ( 1629 ) and John Wilkins in England ( 1648 ).

Steam turbines were traditionally more impulse but continue to move towards reaction designs similar to those used in gas turbines.

Steam ships such as the SS Great Britain and SS Great Western made international travel more common but also advanced trade, so that in Britain it was not just the luxury goods of earlier times that were imported into the country but essentials and raw materials such as corn and cotton from the United States and meat and wool from Australia.

The games ( with the exception of " Aliens Ate My Babysitter ") were made available on Steam on August 3, 2007.

* On August 3, 2007, episodes 1-5 ( excluding " Keen Dreams " and " Aliens Ate My Babysitter ") were rereleased on Steam as part of the id Software game addition to Steam.

Steam engines were the first mechanical engines used in marine propulsion, but have mostly been replaced by two-stroke or four-stroke diesel engines, outboard motors, and gas turbine engines on faster ships.

Steam trains were initially operated by the GER, LB & SCR and the SER.

Other notable shipyards in Deptford were, Charles Lungley's and the General Steam Navigation Company's yards at Deptford Green and Dudman's Dock, also sometimes referred to as Deadmans Dock at Deptford Wharf.

Steam engines were then put in place, and the mill successfully operated.

West Newbury and its residents were the models for Popperville, the setting of Virginia Lee Burton's children's story Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.

Steam powered tractors using a form of continuous track were reported in use with the Western Alliance during the Crimean War in the 1850s.

Steam last operated on the Erie on March 17, 1954, when the fires were dropped on K-1 class Pacific locomotive No. 2530.

Steam ferries started in 1841, and in 1848 were purchased by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.

Steam tugs were introduced in 1831.

In 1837 the Great Western Steam Company was experiencing many problems forging the paddle shaft of the SS Great Britain ; when even the largest hammer was tilted to its full height its range was so small that if a really large piece of work were placed on the anvil, the hammer had no room to fall, and in 1838 the company's engineer wrote to Nasmyth:

Seventeen of her early short stories were adapted in the 2012 collection Mansfield with Monsters ( book ) published by New Zealand publisher Steam Press.

The players ' wages were lower than those of Indiana and Ohio, so it was harder for the Steam Roller to bring in " ringers ".

The last three seasons of a " Providence Steam Roller " team were as a member of the Atlantic Coast Football League ; in 1962, the Steamroller team was the league's runner-up, losing in the championship to the Paterson Miners in a double-overtime decision.

The assets of the ACFL Steam Roller were bought and taken to the Continental Football League as the Rhode Island Indians, where the team played one last season in 1965.

Shipping services to Liverpool were provided from 1837 by the Dundalk Steam Packet Company.