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Today we had a unique opportunity to see and photograph this special steam engine #844, UP's "Living Legend". It was saved from the scrap yard and put into special service in 1960 after diesel engines took over the rails but has been retired from passenger service over 60 years ago. It has become Union Pacific’s ambassador of goodwill. This engine left Cheyenne, WY Tuesday, where it was restored and returned to service in 2016, on a special excursion to Boise and then back again. This was photographed as it passed by our house. It was pulling several passenger cars and a back up diesel engine.
Found a bit more info on this engine (from local newspaper). Construction was completed in 1944, weight is 454 ton.
Fever River Series: 37
Fever River Railroad Model RR Club
Stephenson Society of Model Trainsmen
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Freeport, Illinois
An old fire truck sitting about a mile from my house.
Taken with my sixty-third camera.
Camera: Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Sonar OneStep
Lens: 116mm, f/8
Film: (New) Polaroid Color 600 film (expired 12/2022)
Date: March 25th, 2023, 1.56 p.m.
Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A.
Polaroid SX-70 OneStep 2023 07-2ef
Follows another theme, motor cycle oriented. Used to ride, very strictly amateur, non technical, just for the fun and freedom it gave.
“Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you.”
Space Oddity | David Bowie
The three main engines of the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery (OV-103). National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center. Virginia
Developed in the 1970s by the Marshall Space Flight Center, the space shuttle main engine was the world's most sophisticated reusable rocket engine. After the solid rocket boosters were jettisoned, the main engines provided thrust which accelerated the shuttle from 3,000 mph to more than 17,000 mph in order to reach low earth orbit. The engines operated for 8 minutes and 40 seconds for each shuttle flight, with a combined output of 37 million horsepower, and a combined maximum thrust of more than 1.2 million pounds.
August 26, 2018: An EMD SD70ACe engine leads Norfolk Southern loaded ethanol train NS 64H (Chicago, IL-Westover, GA) Southbound by the C-Line Junction at Seney, GA.
Make: Tilling Stevens K6LA7
Body: Scottish Aviation C33F
Year : 1949
Stroud College
Gloucestershire
11-07-2021
New to Altonian Coaches, Hampshire
The name WULFRUN COACHES is fictional.
This close-up looks at some of the fittings and pipework on the front of the Maudsley Engine.
The engine was the first beam engine built for the Kew Bridge water works and began pumping in 1838. It was extensively rebuilt at various points during its working life and little of the original remains.
The engine was built originally by Maudslay, Sons and Field of Lambeth, who were better known as marine engineers. The engine was later converted to work on the Cornish cycle in 1848 by Samuel Homersham.
In 1888, the beam cracked and half of it was replaced with a substantially-thicker substitute which is clearly visible today.
'Cornish engines' is a reference to the operating cycle of single-cylinder steam-powered beam engines. The main characteristic is that pumping is done by a falling weight which is lifted by the engine. The weight is above the pump, which is linked to a beam, with the piston attached at the opposite end of the beam. The weight is lifted by a combination of steam pressure above, and vacuum below, the piston.
During the pumping stroke, as the weight falls, the piston returns to the top of the cylinder because an equilibrium valve opens to allow steam to pass from above to below the piston. All of this means that the speed of the engine's movement varies during the cycle.
The Maudsley engine has a cylinder diameter of 1.65m and a stroke of 2.4m The beam weighs 20.2 tonnes. Water output is 590 litres per stroke, or eight million litres in 24 hours.
The engine last worked in 1943 but was returned to steam operation for demonstration purposes in 1985.
Visitors for the Spring Gala 53808 and 8572 meet at Bridgnorth. This could have been a scene featuring two LNER locomotives in that companies' livery, however B1 1264 was pulled from the gala the week before and the 7F was brought in as a late replacement.
This engine is one and a half feet long and may well be a running model but it wasn't running when I took this picture.
The Gas-up show is put on by people that devote their interest in antique engines and display their equipment at the show. Much of it is operational and as you see some of it is very photogenic.
Antique Engine Equipment Show - I have a lot of pictures of the same event in 2015. I didn't retake the same items this year so check out the album GAS-UP
...near Blanchland in Northumberland, was built around 1805 to house a Cornish pumping engine that prevented the local network of lead mines from flooding. Towards the end of its industrial life in the 1840s, an enormous steam engine was installed in a final attempt to keep the mines dry enough to work.
Following decommissioning, the engine house was converted to a series of flats for mining families, but was finally abandoned around a hundred years ago and has been derelict ever since.
The engine house is a reminder of a once thriving lead mining community of a little under two hundred people, but the population declined after the mid-nineteenth century, when the imports of cheaper foreign lead began. Young families then emigrated from Shildon to the goldfields of Australia and America.
Robey & Co Ltd was founded in 1854, by Robert Robey, as manufacturers of portable steam engines and thrashing machines. By 1862 they had expanded greatly and exhibited a display of agricultural equipment; "fixed engines, traction engines, ploughing tackle, corn mills, saw benches etc" at the Great Exhibition. Soon they extended the range to include a complete range of mining equipment from winding engines and pumping engines to locomotives, cages and kibbles (mine bucket).
Two steam engines under fire waiting for their departure in the station of Werningerode.
Hasselblad XPan, 4/45mm, Adox Scala 160. Scanned with the Minolta Elite 5400 II and stitched.