Practitioners of Modern Steam

There were only a small number of engineers in the second half of the 20th century whose belief in a future for steam traction was robust enough for them to combine current scientific and engineering knowledge to design or modify steam locomotives to deliver levels of performance, efficiency and/or operating costs that were unheard of in the heyday of steam.

Their number include the following:

• André Chapelon (1892 – 1978)
• Livio Dante Porta (1922 – 2003)
• Dave Wardale
• Phil Girdlestone (1954 – 2016)
• Roger Waller
• Shaun McMahon (1964 – 2022)
• Nigel Day
• Ian Gaylor
• Manuel Ramos
• Ian Screeton
• Doug Landa (c1937 – 2026)