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Largest private collection of steam locomotives in the world.
Built in 1916 as Munising, Marquette & Southeastern Railway No.44, this massive 2-8-0 was specially designed for service on heavy iron ore trains in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. These ore trains were operated from the Marquette Iron Range to docks on Lake Superior for shipment by lake boats to lower Great Lakes steel mills. Three identical locomotives were sold to the neighboring Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad, into which the MM&S was eventually merged in 1924. As part of the merger, the engine was re-lettered and renumbered as LS&I No.33. (Age of Steam Roundhouse)
“Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you.”
Space Oddity | David Bowie
The three main engines of the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery (OV-103). National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center. Virginia
Developed in the 1970s by the Marshall Space Flight Center, the space shuttle main engine was the world's most sophisticated reusable rocket engine. After the solid rocket boosters were jettisoned, the main engines provided thrust which accelerated the shuttle from 3,000 mph to more than 17,000 mph in order to reach low earth orbit. The engines operated for 8 minutes and 40 seconds for each shuttle flight, with a combined output of 37 million horsepower, and a combined maximum thrust of more than 1.2 million pounds.
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.
“Willy the Well Tank” leads “The King” departing Ramsbottom station on day two of the Small engines weekend at the East Lancashire Railway. 22.02.2026
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My first Assignment as Engineer. Fire Station 55 in Eagle Rock, CA. This photo was taken on a weekend drill at Occidental College.
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.
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.
This was a while back. This is somewhere between Attalla and Chattanooga. Its been a while since the steam engines ran through. I wish they still did.
R.B. Graflex Super D 4x5
First snow of the season and really low temps helped this steam locomotive really shine Sunday morning.
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.
This engine is one and a half feet long and may well be a running model but it wasn't running when I took this picture.
The Gas-up show is put on by people that devote their interest in antique engines and display their equipment at the show. Much of it is operational and as you see some of it is very photogenic.
Antique Engine Equipment Show - I have a lot of pictures of the same event in 2015. I didn't retake the same items this year so check out the album GAS-UP
...near Blanchland in Northumberland, was built around 1805 to house a Cornish pumping engine that prevented the local network of lead mines from flooding. Towards the end of its industrial life in the 1840s, an enormous steam engine was installed in a final attempt to keep the mines dry enough to work.
Following decommissioning, the engine house was converted to a series of flats for mining families, but was finally abandoned around a hundred years ago and has been derelict ever since.
The engine house is a reminder of a once thriving lead mining community of a little under two hundred people, but the population declined after the mid-nineteenth century, when the imports of cheaper foreign lead began. Young families then emigrated from Shildon to the goldfields of Australia and America.
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Originally built by Alco in 1910 for the Maine Central Railroad, it is a steam 2-8-0 engine. This locomotive was at one time under restoration for operation on the Conway Scenic, but the plan was stopped in 2007. 501 is on display next to the turntable in North Conway and has undergone a cosmetic restoration.
woops, what happened here? There's a new engine :)
I revised my E2 model a bit, added some details and changed the livery to this more realistic one.
Aaand as I worked on the A1 Terrier what better excuse chance to make a shot with all my LBSCR engines :P
The terrier has 444 parts, is 100% buildable (not counting the cuved 2x2 tiles in black behind the smokebox door). Might be an easy build as I still have much Medium Nougat leftover from Gladstone :)
I did borrow some of the Terrier's design from Carl Greatrix's design. Of course I had to make use of the magnifying glasses for the porthole windows.