Historical clue formulations

• 1800s steam-powered locomotive — 2024-01-03
• Locomotive, quaintly — 2023-08-03
• *Railroad engine, in old lingo — 2015-09-29
• Locomotive — 2014-01-03
• Old West whistler — 2005-07-23
• Engineer's charge — 2000-08-11
• Lou Gehrig nickname, with "the" — 1997-06-10
• Locomotive — 1996-02-13
• Locomotive — 1995-06-24