Retired Hydro-Operations Officer with an interest in most things that have gone before, especially 'Rusty Ones' that have now been lost. Engineering history of Railways, Maritime and all sorts of Agricultural and Industrial Archeology. Special interests in olde world forms of Water / Hydropower - Turbines and Waterwheels. Steam Locomotives ('S-L's) and Road Traction Engines. A collector of Books and Journals on like minded subjects, particular emphasis on the builders of such machinery, whether it came from Clydeside, Tyneside, Philadelphia, Schenectady, Ohio, Sacramento or Rhein / Donau, or 'down-unda'.