In Northern England, the hills used to be home to steam trains. The trains have long faded into history, but the sound of their whistle is making a brief return. Artist [Steve Messam] has created &… ...

If you want to blow the train whistle yourself, it's an extra donation, and those donations are vital to keeping 745 alive.

The steam train runs off of steam pressure and the airhorn runs off of air pressure. I challenge the train to replace the airhorn with a steam whistle. Seems to me like it would be a simple fix.

Tourists had the chance to blow the whistle on the 611 steam engine Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. “To me, it’s a part of Roanoke heritage.

The museum has a 1629 Mogul steam locomotive on the siding, and a whistle inside the station that is just like the one that came off the engine, but nobody knew what it sounded like. Wouldn’t it be ...