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The “Queen of Steam” continues to explore new frontiers and make history, now as an official Virginia landmark.
The train was built in May of 1950 by Norfolk & Western. The train was used to carry passengers from Virginia to Ohio and from the western parts of the Commonwealth to West Virginia. It is the sole surviving member of the fourteen Class J locomotives.
In 1952, it was one of the locomotives that pulled Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidential campaign train from Columbus, Ohio, to Kenova, West Virginia. Now, the steam train is owned and operated by the Virginia Museum of Transportation, Inc., in Roanoke.
Playing with a wide angle fisheye to achieve a close encounter with this engine.
The train graveyard yielded some beautiful images for me. More to come.
Some neat old tractors from this show a couple of years ago. Now It's time to go to this year's show.
September 6, 2019
Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Association
Boonville, Missouri
Wikipedia: Canadian National 89 is a E-10-a class 2-6-0 "Mogul" type steam locomotive, built in February 1910 by the Canadian Locomotive Company (CLC) for the Grand Trunk Railway (GT). Originally number No. 1009, it was renumbered to No. 911 in 1919. It then came under Canadian National (CN) ownership in 1923 when the Grand Trunk merged. It was then renumbered again to No. 89 in 1951. Most of No. 89's early life is a mystery, but it spent the latter part of its working life in Quebec until retirement in 1958 and being stored in the deadline in Montreal. It was purchased by F. Nelson Blount in 1961, who sent it to operate on the Green Mountain Railroad (GMRC) and later Steamtown, U.S.A.. It was then purchased in 1972 by the Strasburg Rail Road (SRC) who were looking for an engine to pull the half-hour trains. As of 2025, it is in operation at the Strasburg Railroad.
The Mountain Copper Mine. Man Engine House.
Beara Peninsula Allihies.
An image I took in April 2018 while exploring the beautiful Beara Peninsula with Chas Sievewright and after some help and directions from Rohan. The mine's history makes for some incredible reading. This Engine House erected in 1862 to operate the newly invented system of lowering and lifting the miners to and from the mines.
Mountain mine was the most productive mine in Allihies and from its opening in 1813 was in continuous production until 1882 when the mine closed, having reached a depth of 421 meters below surface. Approximately 280 meters of this is below sea level.
At its peak between 1,500 – 2,000 miners were working at the mines, they often worked long and hard in very dangerous conditions, miners were brought over from Cornwall to help increase production and there was even a Methodist church built for them which is where the Allihies Copper Mine Museum is housed today.
A Mine Captain reports:
“On the 13 inst. we had a man killed by falling out of the whim bucket in the whim shaft (winding shaft), he fell 72 feet and was killed immediately. … The whim bucket was coming up and he was rather late to get into it, when he laid hold of the edge of it with his fingers and was drawn up nearly to the top in that manner but was obliged to let go at last and fell to the bottom of the shaft. … He was a very able young man – this day we intended to carry him across the mountain to Castletown a distance of 7 miles to have him interred but the weather is so bad with a fall of sleet and snow that it was not possible. … We hope to do the last for him tomorrow.”
What a beautiful piece of machinery! All motorbike enthusiasts will recognise this as twin cylinder 998cc Vincent engine, probably dating from around the late 1940s. I spotted the bike in Looe, but it had a couple of seriously ugly metal pannier boxes on the back, so I decided not to photograph the whole of it. I suspect it could be a B series Rapide, dating from 1946 onwards. The HRD name was apparently dropped in 1950 to avoid confusion with the American Harley Davidson (HD).
For more details visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Motorcycles#1954_.22Series_....
0-6-0ST No 3 "Cranford" during Steel Works tour. Restored and operated by the Appleby Frodsham Railway Preservation Society which has its shed and workshops within the Scunthorpe Steel Works complex and gives tours at weekends for the public
The locomotive was built by the Avonside Engine Company in 1924 for the Staveley Coal and Iron Company and is now in their livery. It finished its working life at Cranford ironstone quarry in Northamptonshire.
Best seen large
Cotton Spinning Mill Oberwaltersdorf (1852) - The abandoned mill has been converted into flats, but an old steam engine remained in one of the buildings.
Big gutsy Erie Lackawanna SDP45 3666 waits alongside a Belt train at Pullman Jct. for a Rock Island train to clear. Both trains went across the junction side by side. July 1974.
I was messing around trying to build an engine to go into a new MOC for this months LUGNuts challenge, and I decided to pull out all my MOC engines to have a look at them together. All in all they're pretty much similar, yet all done differently. I sure like that jet blade piece! None of them are based on anything real, some of them have their exhaust pipes removed, and two of them haven't been used yet.
Over the last Two days my grandson Sullivan and I built this miniature V8 Engine it was good fun working together...
Pannier tank 7714 can be seen just before highley during the first weekend of the Severn valley railways Santa specials
A murky day at the old Engine House. Part of the South Phoenix Mine, Minions, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England
Engine fogging is caused by very high air speed reducing the pressure, causing water in the air to rapidly condense. It's the same condition you see on aircraft traveling near the speed of sound.
I have an unhealthy fixation with this bridge... The Engine Bridge in Canmore remains my favourite place to go.
One of the treasures of the Regional Museum Store in Beamish Museum is this Shand Mason & Co.( London) horse-drawn fire engine "The Nelson", of the Victorian era. The engine, built around 1890, was based at Bishop Auckland in south Durham during it's working life. Behind it is a 1931 Dodge bus from Weardale.
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Can't wait till they get this done. The "Tod Engine" refers to a massive, historic 4,000-horsepower stationary steam engine built by the William Tod Company in Youngstown, Ohio, for powering a steel rolling mill, now a major restoration project by Youngstown Steel Heritage Foundation (Youngstown Steel Heritage) aiming to run it again for educational purposes,