This Bull Donkey steam engine was used in logging operations in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The stationary Bull Donkey worked in conjunction with a smaller Donkey engine mounted on a sled. Each used a ...

We imagine loggers as burly men in calk boots, wool shirts and pants trimmed nearly to their boot tops to keep them from snagging on the brush and leftover bramble of their work. We don’t think of ...

RIDGEFIELD — Ryan Johnson sounded the horn over the boiler that powers the big, blue Corliss steam engine, Sunday afternoon to signal the crowd: One of the biggest attractions at Alan Schurman’s “Iron ...

Hundreds of North State school children did battle last week with a 12,000-pound hissing, clacking, fire eating piece of ancient machinery — and of course they lost. But since it was only a tug-of-war ...

After slumbering for decades, Big Willy, the 110-year-old steam “donkey” at west county’s historic Sturgeon’s Steam Saw Mill, has been roused from its long sleep and will be huffing and puffing this ...