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A 100-ton mountain engine operating on the Canadian Pacific Railway near Field, British Columbia, 1899.

The Marent Gulch Trestle This photograph captures a massive wooden railway trestle spanning Marent Gulch, a deep ravine in Montana, United States, built in 1883—during a time when America was driven by expansion, industry, and the relentless push westward. Location Marent Gulch lay in a rugged...

If you were cruising Woodward Avenue in 1967 and a guy named Jimmy Addison pulled up next to you in a silver GTX you should have just turned right and went home. This was the "Silver Bullet." It was the ultimate hustle. It looked like a clean comfortable street car with full exhaust and a...

Why the Viper died. It wasn't because it was slow. In fact the 2017 ACR destroyed almost every track record in the world. It had an 8.4-liter V10 and an aero package that generated 2,000 pounds of downforce. It stuck to the ground like chewing gum. So why did they kill it? Because of a...

Understand how unhinged Dodge was in 1968. They wanted to dominate the Super Stock class at the drag strip. So they took the smallest car they had which was the Dart and they sent it to Hurst Performance with one instruction. Make it light. Hurst went crazy. They replaced the fenders and hood...

In 1964 John DeLorean was running Pontiac and he wanted a two-seater sports car. He didn't want a heavy cruiser. He wanted a Mustang fighter. So he built the Banshee. It was brilliant. It had a fiberglass body and a clam-shell hood. It was tiny and aerodynamic and it weighed 500 pounds less...

General Motors finally lifted their ban on engines larger than 400 cubic inches in mid-sized cars. Chevy wasted no time. They dropped the LS6 454 V8 into the Chevelle SS. It was rated at 450 horsepower but we all know that was a lie. It was closer to 500. But look at this car. It isn't Arrest...

In 1968 General Motors had a strict corporate edict. No mid-sized car could have an engine larger than 400 cubic inches. They said it was for safety but really they just wanted to protect the Corvette. Oldsmobile was tired of getting beat by 440 Dodges so they came up with a plan. They...