Once a staple of the hot rod and modification scenes, the era of the big block V8 engines has largely ended thanks to technological advances in the 1980s and 1990s. The result was 340 horsepower ...

She was 81. Allcroft died on Christmas Day in Los Angeles, her daughter, Holly Wright, told The New York Times. Thomas the Tank Engine was created by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry in a series of 1940s ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer who adapted Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends for television, has died. She was 81. According to Allcroft’s daughter Holly Wright, she died on Wednesday, Dec. 25 in ...