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Rod was given this magnificent steam engine for his birthday in October from all of the family. The engine (right) arrives in pieces and needs to be built, polished, painted. The boiler (left) arrives complete but needs some polish and paint on it's base. This was the first steaming - very exciting!
I did take a video but was unable to upload...will try again perhaps with a video taken on a phone rather than the camera which might be more successful.
The next challenge is to make something which can be driven by the engine. Watch this space.
HTT!
Detroit has an underground heating system network throughout the city, with stacks like this in certain areas of the city, blowing steam (obviously) year round.
Great Western Railway 2251 Class 0-6-0 3205 steams up the hill from Buckfastleigh on the South Devon Railway during a Timeline Events photographic charter.
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I had a wander around Hastings this morning, and looks like the miniature railway will soon be up and running ... Summer must be on it's way :)
Also for the 365 treasure hunt, number 63 Steam.
This old steam engine lives in a small park north of Seattle. In the summer you will see young chidlren climbing all over it.
Stanier Black 5 45231 "The Sherwood Forester" steams past Worting Junction with a Southend Central to Winchester tour.
Locomotive: LMS Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 45231 "The Sherwood Forester".
Location: Worting Junction, near Basingstoke, Hampshire.
in the days before the vegetation took over here , class 5 4-6-0 45379 climbs through bradnop cutting towards ipstones on what was then the churnet valley's cauldon low extension, but is now the ipstones branch as the track has been lifted beyond there
60163 Tornado is a brand new main line steam locomotive built in Darlington, England. She is the first such locomotive to be built in the United Kingdom since Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built by British Rail, in 1960. Designed and built to meet modern safety and certification standards, Tornado runs on the UK rail network passenger main lines around the country, and also on mainline connected heritage railways. The locomotive is named after the Panavia Tornado military jet.
The locomotive was built by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, a charitable trust founded in 1990, for the purposes of building Tornado, and possibly further locomotives. Tornado was conceived by the Trust not as a replica or a restoration project, but as an evolution of the LNER Peppercorn Class A1 class of locomotives, incorporating likely improvements to the design had steam continued, and changes for cost, safety regulation, manufacturing and operational benefits, while replicating the original design's sound and appearance. As such, being a completely new build original machine, Tornado is considered as the 50th Peppercorn A1, numbered next in the class after the last member built in 1949, 60162 Saint Johnstoun.
A4 60009 runs alongside the Firth of Forth near Burntisland in Fife on 4/3/1990.The impressive building is Starley Hall,in use as a Special Needs school
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Steam engine 75014, Braveheart, puling into the station at Kingswear, Devon, to take the train back to Paignton on the Dartmouth Steam Railway.
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Former Sugar cane hauling steam locomotive Moreton, hauls another trip around the Ginger Factory at Yandina. The locomotive is powered by a diesel motor.
I figure I better get my act together and post some winter photos before the party is over. I bet you thought I was done with the Prairie Sub? Nope...
Here we see the Janesville 0300 relief crew (T006R) dragging 50 loads of grain east of Black Earth. You know it's cold out when the horn sounds muffled and when water vapor in the exhaust condenses into clouds. At this point in the morning it was probably somewhere in the -10s of degrees.
Normally, the Prairie guys can get these trains to the west side of Middleton no problem. But when temps fall below 10 F, the Prairie Sub gets hit with a 10 mph speed restriction. More importantly though, L724 started out on the Island in Prairie du Chein to finish up some work there versus driving to Boscobel to begin building this train. Thus, L724 was relieved much further west in Arena.
While it was a slow journey, it was not slow enough. The sun didn't start hitting the rails until Black Earth. This is definitely not the most ideal time for a morning EB on this particular part of the Prairie Sub. But I'll take what I can get given how uncommon they are.
Like I've done in my last few uploads, I've created a Prairie Subdivision Album for those interested in seeing more of the line. I've ordered the photos geographically for convenience.
Western Maryland Scenic's former Chesapeake and Ohio 2-6-6-2 1309 was out and about with the Polar Express on a cold overcast day.
The weather seemed to keep most of the rail photographers away since I was by myself for this run-by.
As an introvert, that was just fine with me!
For today's Steam Sunday here's another recent one from my visit to New England's own Steam Mecca.
For five weeks before Christmas the Valley Railroad (dba Essex Steam Train and Riverboat) runs an astonishing amount of holiday trains branded as the North Pole Express. Most are steam powered and this requires all three of their steam locomotives to be under steam at once. Excepting the Strasburg Railroad I don't believe there is anywhere else in the United States where three standard gauge rod connected locomotives are regularly under steam at the same time. But here, every weekend, it is a normal occurrence as the railroad runs 13 sold out departures between 2 and 8 PM every Sat and Sun (only 9 on Tue-Fri) using four consists one of which is led by one of the road's center cab GEs.
After shooting the 2:30 PM departure by the hardware store crossing I relocated to the signature photo location on the line for the 3 PM train to the North Pole, the open field near MP 4.5 on the old New Haven Valley Line north of the bridge over the Falls River. But 3 PM came and went and I never heard them whistling for departure and started to wonder. About 20 min later than expected something finally appeared...but not what I expected!. Instead of the train it was just VRR 97 running light as I found out later headed to rescue the 2:30 PM train after 3025 suffered an unknown failure requiring her to be set out on the spur track at Deep River. Also take note that 97 has lost her garish white North Pole Express tender decal and again has a proper yellow Valley Railroad script herald.
Built by the American Locomotive Company (Alco) at their Patterson, N.J. works in 1923, No. 97 has had a long and interesting career. It was one of three identical units built for stock, an unusual practice in the locomotive business as usually locomotives were built only when an order was placed. It was finally sold in 1926 to the Birmingham & Southeastern Railroad, an Alabama short line.
On the B&SE it pulled freight and passenger trains until about 1958 when it was retired and stored. It was purchased by a New York publisher and eventually was moved to Essex and in 1972 began a new career pulling trainloads of tourists for the Essex Steam Train & Riverboat.
Information above courtesy of the Valley Railroad web site and more history can be found here:
essexsteamtrain.com/about/history/
Essex, Connecticut
Saturday November 16, 2024
An old steam locomotive that pulled passenger trains to and from our city until the 60s. Usually the display is not open but I was lucky as a cruise ship was in town with 2000 sight seers about and everything open. The engine was almost entirely madein our city. I doubt those skills would exist today and the railway factory was shut down.
For Steam Sunday here's another from last fall on a soggy day chasing the Reading and Northern 2102 on one of several fall foliage excursions she lead.
The stout 4-8-4 built in the Reading Railroad's own shops in 1945 is leading 17 cars headed back some 60 miles to North Reading from the Lehigh Gorge resort town of Jim Thorpe. This was one of the absolute best shows of the day and the sound was incredible here in this colorful tree tunnel as she barked up Hometown Hill at about MP 109.2 on the modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline. Historically this is former Central Railroad of New Jersey Railroad branchline having been built in 1870 as Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company.
Village of Hometown
Rush Township, Pennsylvania
Saturday October 14, 2023
45407 passes the industrial area at frodsham wharf prior to crossing the river weaver with the great britain tour
โHenburyโ was an integral part of the harbour in Bristol, transporting goods and passengers through the port.
She is still in good working order and pulls a wagon for passengers on summer weekends. We spotted her last weekend, presumably getting ready for the summer season.
Happy Thursday Monochrome!
The Nova Chemicals polyethylene plant east of Red Deer is an interesting place to do night photography. Where else can you do night photography at f22? The steam emitted by the plant creates an interesting look especially in cold weather. We haven't had much extremely cold weather this winter....this evening was about -24 C....I'd like to see it in -40 with some ice crystals in the air. (but not too often!)
Taken in Elsecar, Yorkshire. My hubby had a steam engine 'footplate' driving experience and this was his instructor. Monochrome and a little extra grain to achieve a vintage feel.
Yes it did rain in the afternoon and yes I did get a little wet until retreating to on the sheds for a welcome mug of tea till the heavy rain passed over. The roller was levelling the crushed bricks that had be laid down on newly cleared area by an ancient JCB digger.
The event was Timeline Event at Andover Steam Yard, owner is Derek Marder who has a large collection of various engines, steam rollers and Traction Engines. But the whole site is littered with abandoned old machines, cars lorries , bulldozers, you name there is something there.
Image info:- Nikon D750 with Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 les @ f/6.3, ISO 800, shutter 1/320th second processed in LightRoom Classic and B & W conversion using Silver EFEX Pro 2 of NIK Collection. Full contrast extraction.
An old steam locomotive on a night run along the rails being illuminated by moonlight.
Prompt: Steam Age style train with billowing white smoke on the black body and a bright light on the front, highlight color contrast photography, Surrealism, 16k, high detail --v 5.2 --ar 10:8
Midjourney and post processing in Photoshop
Paddington to Worcester Special at Didcot
"60009 Union of South Africa is an LNER Class A4 steam locomotive built in Doncaster in 1937.
It is one of six surviving Gresley A4s, and is currently operational and mainline certified until April 2019 when it will be permanently withdraw."
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