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The engine of the same truck that I have shown recently. See in Comments for reference.
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Standing in the Engine Shed next to two magnificent steam engines makes you really appreciate their scale and grandeur.
old power generator in the engine museum "Maschinen-Museum" in Kiel/Germany. image made with three shots to a hdr.
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.
The train engine proved much more of a challenge than regular train cars, and I'm still not quite happy with it. There's just not that much space in a 5-wide system... With that in mind, any suggestions for improvements would be greatly appreciated!
We're digging back into the archives almost ten years. It's the afternoon before we're to begin what would be an epic 10-day trip along the Iowa, Chicago & Eastern and Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern that would take us through six states.
And what better way to prime us for the long trip than to have a taste of blue and yellow on Chicago's south side? We're in Bedford Park watching the eastbound IC&E manifest freight rounding the sweeping curve at 65th and Harlem just before entering the Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard.
In just under 12 hours, we'd leave Chicago's urban scene behind us as we headed through the cornfields in our trek toward the badlands of South Dakota.
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.
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.
Happy to be able to walk through all parts of the model of the Orient Express Train used for the 2017 film Murder on the Orient Express.
Now part of the Bassenthwaite Lake Station café.
Sick with a cold last few days but I've been working on the engine section, which I feel is the weakest part of the SHIP at the moment. So here's a before and after shot. It's better but still not 100% happy.
The light bley section needs more greebling, not too much, but more. Also I just spotted a mistake I need to fix at the back!
55 010 The King's Own Scottish Borderer sets out from York as 0B06 York - Peterborough light engine, from where it worked 0B02 light engine to Finsbury Park