Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.

Compressed air isn’t really a practical form of energy storage for headline uses like transport or heating, but it’s a fun thing to tinker with at the small scale. [Tom Stanton] is plenty experienced ...

When you’ve gone to the trouble of building your own backyard railway, chances are pretty good that at some point, you’re going to want to add a locomotive of some sort. After all, nobody wants to be ...

First came the air-powered engine when Tata Motors put forward the idea of a car powered by compressed air over gasoline. In partnership with France’s MDI group, a cleaner and more sustainable ...

A 20-year-old mastermind from Romania has built the world's first full-size Lego car, with a compressed air-powered Lego engine. It has space for two passengers and can hit a top speed of around 30 ...

The provocative press release was still live in 2023, 16 years after its creation, on the Tata Motors corporate website. Dated February 5, 2007, and titled “An Engine Which Uses Air as Fuel,” the ...