Wonders of Sodor players have beaten the real world speed record for a steam train, held by Mallard since 1938.

You’ll see wetlands where herons stand like they’re posing for nature documentaries, forests so thick you half expect a fairy ...

In 1934, the New York Central unveiled a gleaming silver locomotive that looked like it belonged in the future. The Commodore Vanderbilt was a streamlined Art Deco masterpiece — recessed lighting, ...

Steam’s tri-yearly Next Fest, a week-long “celebration” featuring hundreds of new demos from triple-A and indie publishers alike, isn’t quite hitting the same as it used to for the community, due to ...

GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- A steam locomotive built 123 years ago is about to get a $1.3 million life-boosting rebuild. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has awarded the grant funds to the Genesee County ...

In the 1930s, speed records became a matter of national prestige, and Nazi Germany used high speed locomotives as propaganda symbols of technological dominance. Britain responded with the LNER Class ...

Historian Marc Chevalier is obsessed with Downtown’s Oviatt Building. The vintage clothing collector and connoisseur has been researching the former haberdashery for years, wears original suits from ...

BEACHWOOD, Ohio -- In 1930, Cleveland businessman and philanthropist Dudley S. Blossom, whose family name now lives on at Blossom Music Center, commissioned renowned architect Abram Garfield to build ...

Editor’s Note: This is one of multiple stories in ETX View’s 2026 January/February issue that published Jan. 10. To read more stories and view the full digital edition, visit our ETX View homepage.

Trains are a popular concept in the lengthy queue of Lego set fan ideas, and one potential set has ties to Michigan. Fans have started two separate petitions on the Lego website to get the Pere ...

The 88-year-old house was recently renovated to modernize it while preserving its historic glamour. Known for its nautical moderne style, the home features porthole windows and sea-foam green terrazzo ...

The giddy, gaudy Art Deco design movement emerged in the years before World War I, spread to just about every corner of the globe during the 1920s and ’30s, and then petered out during World War II.