On July 4, 1835, Richard Jones placed a miniature steam engine inside a 61/2-foot-long wooden boat with side wheels and launched it in the Wilkes-Barre canal basin. Jones, a local mill worker, had ...
Vulcan the steam engine is back on track on Tyneside after six years of restoration. The locomotive, otherwise known as 401, has returned to service at the Stephenson Railway Museum in North Tyneside.