Steam Trains Steam Trains provides a detailed look at the locomotives that dominated America s railroad tracks for 160 years. At Steamtown National Historic Site, the men and women who preserve these fascinating machines lead a tour through their history, including the engines that defined the steam age. Through the lens of famed railroad photographer O. Winston Link, the steam trains that once ruled the railways come to life. But diesel engines have replaced steam engines and steam engines are part of America s past. Discuss the differences between steam engines and diesel engines.
Steam engines are part of America s history.
Discuss the design essentials of the American type locomotives. Chicago is one of the major cities in the world, and it owes its prominence to the steam train. Extended Activities Imagine that you are living in the 19th century and you see a steam engine for the first time. Write an article for your local newspaper describing your fittest encounter with these mammoth machines. Create a travel log of a train journey in the early twentieth-century.