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UP844 Oil fired locomotive. Union Pacific RR steam engine formerly a passenger engine designed for speed. The drive wheels are about 6 feet in diameter.
A traction engine is a self-propelled steam engine used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location. The name derives from the Latin 'tractus', meaning 'drawn', since the prime function of any traction engine is to draw a load behind it. They are sometimes called road locomotives to distinguish them from their track-bound steam locomotive cousins. The machines tend to be robust and powerful, but also heavy and slow. Nevertheless, they revolutionized agriculture and road haulage at a time when the only alternative prime mover was the draught horse.
These two gentlemen are seen here after taking part in a parade at Otley Carnival with their engine, 'Earl Douglas'.
With morning servicing complete, Valley Railroad Consolidation #97 makes her way light across the yard in Essex, CT, headed to the depot to pick up a passenger consist. This 1926 Alco product is the Valley's longest serving steam locomotive, having entered service here in 1973, just two years after the former New York, New Haven & Hartford line was established as a tourist operation. On this particular morning in October of 2024, the locomotive was performing for a photo shoot organized by Dak Dillon Photography.
All aboard, top of the line! We followed the early Union Pacific Railroad from Cheyenne west, up the mountains toward Laramie and arrived at the round house and station atop Shermen Hill before the descent. The UP encountered plenty of obstacles over the top. The new whistle stop looked pretty rustic in 1869s. There were several wood buildings and I theorize they stocked a lot of materials atop Sherman for the push down to Utah. Little remains at Sherman after UP drove the twin tunnels and relocated the up and down lines over the summit. Steam engines required continual repair and maintenance in round houses.
The Ames pyramidal monument is 800 feet south of the turntable pivot block in this view. Search Ames Monument to zero in on the location. The grey tracing, Iron House RD., designates the original grade. I don't know if the fondation to the left was the depot.
5786 was built by the Great Western Railway in 1930 and in 1958 it was overhauled at Swindon and transferred to London Transport where it was painted Maroon and numbered L92.
A classic, this Norfolk and Western number 6 steam engine was built in 1897 at the cost of $10,800. Most of its service life was spent on track between Southwestern Virginia and North Carolina. It was retired from service in 1955. It's the oldest locomotive in the museum's collection.
Wheel detail from the 'Sterling Single' a steam engine built in 1870. This is a classic racer from the East Coast main line and It has seven foot driving wheels
CP train coming through. Our departure point at the Lake O'Hara parking lot. My group snowshoed out to a pleasant little lake down the road from here this day.
10-10-10 Campaign Day Notice:
More significant than the fact that the parts per million (ppm) of Co2
is up to 388 instead of the save level of 350 is the fact that LUNG
CANCER has reached an average of 70% in congested Cities such as Los
Angeles, according to the California E.P.A. records.
GLOBAL WARMING does not ALARM the PUBLIC as much as GLOBAL CANCER.
The 350 campaign needs to FOCUS on GLOBAL CANCER under the CLEAN AIR
ACT that would cause more ACTION. The Secretary General of the U.N.
has already announced that he doubts any real action will happen under
the Co2 Treaty, that will end in 2012. It has had little success in
the last 16 years.
The Mothers Against Lead Campaign was successful because they sued the
U.S. Government under HEALTH HAZARDS from LEAD FUMES, not temperature
changes or ice caps melting or animals becoming extinct.
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Nino De Santis
30 yr. Alternative Energy Crusader
Model: BMW Formula 1 engine M12/13
Year: 1985 - 89
Engine: 4 cylinder Turbo Charged, 16 valves
Displacement: 1499cc
Bore and Stroke: 89.2 x 60 mm
Max Torgue: 450 N.m @ 8500 rpm
Power Output: (Brabham BMW BT52) 580 - 790 bhp for qualyfying, 530 - 700 bhp for racing, depending on boost pressure.
This 4-cylinder engine, based on used blocks from production models, was produced specifically for Formula 1 racing. It was first introduced by Paul Rosche, Head of Development, in 1981. During its first season it was capable of between 600 and 630 bhp, an output that by 1983 had increased to between 630 and 790 bhp at 11000 rpm (depending on boost pressure).
Three Grand Prix victories, including the Brazilian Grand Prix, in addition to numerous other top positions were enough to secure the World Championship title for Team Brabham BMW and Nelson Piquet in 1983. This was hte first World Championship to be won by a turbocharged engine.
In the years to follow, intensive development work on the engine electronics and turbochargers would eventually push the engine output up to some 1100 bhp at a boost pressure of 4.4 bar
2 Lg engines standing around the turntable at Agios Ioannis (St. John) Engine shed: Lg 997 at the left end Lg 994 at the right
The Colorado Railroad Museum's collection of steam engines features a nice selection of railroad treasures. Many of the engines run and there is an incredible shop and roundhouse at the museum as well.
Barona Fire Protection District
Station 27 - Barona
Shop #: 5618 | Job #: H-4800
2011 Ferrara Inferno
1500/500-20A, 175 gpm Aux
This is a San Diego County engine being Leased by Barona until they receive their new Pierce engine.
aka Pennsylvania 460, the only surviving example of the E6s Atlantic type (4-4-2) steam engines, the largest Atlantic's ever made. 10-15-17
The White Pass and Yukon Route railway is a 110 mile long railroad whose building was financed by the British Close Brothers (William, Fred and James Close) between 1898 and 1901.
It is a narrow guage railroad that connects Skagway, Alaska, on the west coast of Alaska, and Whitehorse Yukon, in the Canadian interior.
Engine 51 was one of the first locomotives used on the railway. It also operated briefly on the Atlin Short Line Railway, also known as the Taku Tramline, across the isthmus from Taku Arm, near the mouth of the Atlin River, to Scotia Bay, on the west shore of Atlin Lake. That 2.5-mile stretch of railway had the distinction of being the shortest railroad in Canada.
Engine 51 has been a part of the MacBride museum collection for a long time now and is currently residing beside the Yukon River while the MacBride undergoes a long awaited expansion.