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March 1943. "Santa Fe streamliner Super Chief being serviced at the depot in Albuquerque. Servicing these Diesel streamliners takes five minutes." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the OWI.
Chicago IL Engine 106
1912 Ahrens-Fox
700 GPM
#192
Engine 106's house was located at N. Fairfield & W. Diversey. The CFD moved out of that station in 1960.
Borax Mining Museum, Furnace Creek Death Valley
Crown Graphic 4x5 press camera with 120 2x3 roll film adapter
Delta 100 in Caffenol CL
Franklin Township Fire Department
Franklin County, Ohio
Engine 193
2019 Rosenbauer Avenger (1500/750/30)
Ever wonder what Western Michigan’s virgin pine forests really looked like before the logging era denuded the land? Note the tall pine trees reaching left, right and back of the old logging engine and its flatcars loaded with logs. The train was owned by the Thayer Lumber Co. which in 1878 bought the Mason Lumber Co. mill at the end of Fourth St. (Muskegon). Later the Thayer property was bought by the W.J. Brinen Lumber Co. Tohado House Collection
New York City
Subway station '5th Avenue–53rd Street'
IND Queens Boulevard Line
Passing working train with a Diesel engine
Vorbeifahrender Arbeitszug mit Diesellok
DSC08887
Yorkshire Engine 'Janus' Class 440hp 0-6-0 diesel-electric 'William' (Works No.2800 built in 1962) out of use at United Engineering Steels Ltd's Brymbo steelworks on Saturday 13th October 1990. It was eventually despatched for scrap at Both Roe Metals, Rotherham, in 1992.
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The area around Wanlockhead was mined for lead.
The winding engine was initially powered by horse, walking round a circle just in front of the current beam engine that replaces it. The beam engine was also known as a "bobbing John" and this one was used to pump water from Straitseps Mine.It dates from the 1870s and ran until 1910.
To the left are what are left of miner's cottages.
Jefferson Township Fire Department
Franklin County, Ohio
Engine 141
2024 Pierce Enforcer/Ascendant (1500/500/107')
A Stirling engine is a heat engine that is operated by a cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas (the working fluid) at different temperatures, such that there is a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work. More specifically, the Stirling engine is a closed-cycle regenerative heat engine with a permanently gaseous working fluid. Closed-cycle, in this context, means a thermodynamic system in which the working fluid is permanently contained within the system, and regenerative describes the use of a specific type of internal heat exchanger and thermal store, known as the regenerator. Strictly speaking, the inclusion of the regenerator is what differentiates a Stirling engine from other closed cycle hot air engines.
How many biplanes can claim a jet fighter among their victims in an air-to-air engagement? The Polikarpov Po-2 can (see below).
Designed as a replacement for the British-designed Avro 504 in Russian training units, it served as a general-purpose Soviet biplane, nicknamed Kukuruznik (from Russian "kukuruza" for maize; thus, "maize duster" or "crop duster"), NATO reporting name Mule.
The reliable, uncomplicated concept of the Po-2's design made it an ideal training aircraft, as well as doubling as a low-cost ground-attack, aerial reconnaissance, psychological warfare and liaison aircraft during war, proved to be one of the most versatile light combat types to be built in the Soviet Union.
As of 1978 it remained in production for a longer period of time than any other Soviet-era aircraft. More than 40,000 Po-2s may have been built between 1928 and 1953, although this total needs confirmation. Low-rate production by small repair shops and air clubs likely continued until 1959.
In WWII, the Po-2 trainer was modified into the U-2 light night bomber. Wehrmacht troops nicknamed it Nähmaschine (sewing machine) for its rattling sound and Finnish troops called it Hermosaha (Nerve saw) as the engine had a very peculiar sound, which was described as nerve-wracking. The material effects of these missions may be regarded as insignificant, but the psychological effect on German troops was much more noticeable. They typically attacked by complete surprise in the dead of night, denying German troops sleep and keeping them constantly on their guard, contributing yet further to the already exceptionally high stress of combat on the Eastern Front. Their usual tactics involved flying only a few metres above the ground, rising for the final approach, cutting off the engine and making a gliding bombing run, leaving the targeted troops with only the eerie whistling of the wind in the wings' bracing-wires as an indication of the impending attack.
The U-2 was known as the aircraft used by the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, an all-women pilot and ground crew outfit. The unit became notorious for daring low-altitude night raids on German rear-area positions. Veteran pilots, Yekaterina Ryabova and Nadezhda Popova on one occasion flew 18 such missions in a single night. The women pilots observed that the enemy suffered a further degree of demoralisation simply due to their antagonists being female. As such, the pilots earned the nickname "Night Witches." The unit earned numerous Hero of the Soviet Union citations and dozens of Order of the Red Banner medals; most surviving pilots had flown nearly 1,000 combat missions each by the end of the war and had taken part in the Battle of Berlin.
North Korean forces used the Po-2 in the Korean War, inflicting serious damage during night raids on Allied bases. At 0300 hours on 28 November 1950, a lone Po-2 attacked Pyongyang airfield in north-western Korea, damaging 11 Mustangs, three so badly that they were destroyed when Pyongyang was abandoned several days later.
On 17 June 1951, at 01:30 hours, Suwon Air Base was bombed by two Po-2s. Each dropped a pair of fragmentation bombs. One hit a motor pool, damaging some equipment, but two bombs burst on the flight-line of the 335th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. One F-86A Sabre was struck on the wing and burned out. Prompt action by personnel who moved aircraft away from the burning Sabre preventing further loss. Yet eight other Sabres had been damaged in the brief attack, four seriously. One F-86 pilot was among the wounded.
UN forces named the Po-2's night-time appearance Bedcheck Charlie and had great difficulty in shooting it down - even though night fighters had radar as standard equipment in the 1950s, the wood-and-fabric-construction of the Po-2 gave only a minimal radar echo, making it hard for an opposing fighter pilot to acquire his target. On 16 June 1953, a USMC AD-4 from VMC-1 piloted by Major George H Linnemeier and CWO Vernon S Kramer shot down a Po-2, the only documented Skyraider air victory of the war.
And that jet fighter mentioned above? Well, one Lockheed F-94 Starfire jet fighter was lost while slowing to 110 mph during an intercept of a Po-2 biplane; maybe not shot down, but I'll bet the Po-2 pilot claimed it. - all details from various Wikipedia pages.
This airworthy example is in a Soviet Air Force colour scheme at the Shuttleworth Collection and is seen at the end of the Collection's 50th Anniversary Air Show at Old Warden Aerodrome in Bedfordshire.
Tangible Engine is a new visualizer, configurator, and software development kit that allows developers to easily connect real-world objects to applications running on Ideum multitouch tables. Tangible Engine also comes with a starter kit of object markers and instructions for 3D printing them. Tangible Engine works with Ideum multitouch tables that use 3M touch technology, including the 55" and 65" Platform and Pro.
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The Enterprise engine was manufactured in Derby in 1947 and was used on the Dublin to Belfast route until replaced by Diesel engines.
A modern suburban train is at the left platform.
One of the steam traction engines at the May 2013 gathering at Normanby Hall, Scunthorpe.
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