Pratt Institute’s chief engineer blew off some steam for the last time on New Year’s Eve. Conrad Milster has been tooting in the new year with his collection of antique steam whistles since 1965, but ...

Who knew that an event that encourages people to let off steam would be celebrating its 10th anniversary on Saturday. Certainly not the organizers of that inaugural Whistles on the Water event. "We’re ...

The steam whistles at the Pratt Institute will blow once more tomorrow night, welcoming the new year with their sustained, deafening cries. What better way to ring in 2014 than with permanent hearing ...

The earth shook. Passers-by plugged their ears. And a 104-year Kansas University tradition was resurrected. After three months of silence, a steam whistle’s booming signal again echoed across campus ...

The ferry service on Cape Cod has a new very old sound. The Steamship Authority scoured the country for historic steam whistles to replace the more modern and abrasive sounding air horns. In ...

Times Square may be where a million people choose to ring in the new year, but Fort Greene, Brooklyn is home to the steamiest way to welcome 2013. Pratt Institute allows the public to blow its ...

TIME STEAMS on, but this resounding New Year’s Eve tradition is reaching the end of the line. The ear-splitting arrangement of steam-powered whistles salvaged from old trains, factories and ships will ...

ST. CLAIR - "The best event," said Dan Lockwood, "is the one no one can duplicate —and no can duplicate this steam boiler." Lockwood is part of Whistles on the Water, an annual gathering on the ...

As lunch hour approaches on a stupidly hot morning in downtown Toronto, the bar at Steam Whistle Brewing is filling up with 20-somethings sipping frosty glasses of pilsner. In an office perched above ...

In Massachusetts, people living on Cape Cod are getting used to a new sound. Actually, it's an old sound - real steam whistles have been added onto the diesel-powered ferries running to Martha's ...

Pratt Institute’s chief engineer blew off some steam for the last time on New Year’s Eve. Conrad Milster has been tooting in the new year with his collection of antique steam whistles since 1965, but ...