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This is an image I've had in my mind for a few months now. Last Sunday I finally got around to driving to Öskjuhlíð in Reykjavík to get the raw shots for this. When I arrived I discovered that neither wide angle nor normal lens was enough for the desired effect. So trespassing was the only option.
I created 2 HDR's from three exposures each. One in FDR tools and the other in Photoshop CS3. I merged the two in Photoshop and then did a ton of processing to get better drawing in the steam.
Pannier tank 7714 can be seen just before highley during the first weekend of the Severn valley railways Santa specials
For today's Steam Sunday here's a recent one from New England's own little 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 it is even possible for three standard gauge locomotives to be under steam at once. But here, every weekend, it is a regular 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.
Through some fortunate twist of fate I only live a bit over an hour away from this magical place so every year I make a trip or two down just to soak it all up.
The 2:30 PM departure to the North Pole has just departed the Essex depot and is crossing Main St. / Route 154 near MP 4.1 on the old New Haven Valley Line. In charge and putting on a nice show is Valley Railroad #3025, a China Railways SY class 2-8-2 that was built in 1989 by the Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works for Pennsylvania's Knox & Kane Railroad where it spent its life until that railroad's demise following the collapse of that lines signature attraction, the Kinzua Viaduct. It was purchased by the VRR in 2008 and was rebuilt as a functional replica of a New Haven J-1 'Mikado' locomotive like the type that once plied this line in local service and re-numbered 3025, one number above the last of the original class on the NYNH&H.
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
After meeting one at Kelsey 6251 and friends are rocketing back toward Proctor. They've cleared the speed restrictions and have green all the way home. Khang and I finished shooting the BLE set early and decided to chase this set back.
The Chessie Steam Special prepares to leave Riverdale, Illinois for Hartford, Michigan. July 31, 1977.
NKP 765 leads a short ferry move west bound for Bellevue over the Wheeling's Hartland Sub. Mainline steam has dwindled over the last 20 years, but thanks to the Wheeling 765 was able to make history for a few weeks this May.
Norwalk, Ohio
Ratcliffe on Soar running with a full head of steam and reflecting early morning light in the river Trent. 6x6 Kodak Portra 160 from my Hasselblad 500cm.
"The Selke Valley Railway (Selketalbahn), Gernrode-Harzgerode Railway (Gernroder-Harzgeroder Eisenbahn) and the Anhalt Harz Railway (Anhaltische Harzbahn) were different names for the metre gauge railway in the Lower Harz, Germany, originally owned by the Gernrode-Harzgerode Railway Company (Gernrode-Harzgeroder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, GHE).
It is now only known as the Selke Valley Railway. This has included the Quedlinburg–Gernrode line since 2006. It continues through Alexisbad to Hasselfelde and includes the Alexisbad–Harzgerode branch and the Stiege–Eisfelder Talmühle connecting line. All of them are now owned by the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (Harzer Schmalspurbahnen). The line follows the Selke river between Mägdesprung and Albrechtshaus." (Wikipedia)
The train ride from Stiege to Quedlinburg was by far the most expensive train ride I ever did. But it was nice.
BR Standard Class 2MT 78018 seen at Bury Bolton Street Station at the East Lancs Railway Spring Steam Gala.
This photo is a tribute to those people who volunteer their time to restore and maintain these old steam locomotives in working condition. In this photo, two men are performing minor maintenance tasks while waiting the two hours or more that it takes to fire this engine up. This engine runs a tourist loop at New Hope Pa. and was out of service in 2014. Hopefully it will be back this year. Parts have to be hand made and there are not many people that know how to repair or operate them anymore.
Local steam rally in nearby Healesville today.
Single image. Biplane was a bonus
Texture: Thanks Skeletal Mess
I covered this location as a "Nearby Location" in my 320-page guide book, Photographing California Vol. 2 - South". Often in landscape photography "going the extra mile" can upgrade your foreground. It would be great with some nice sunrise color in the sky.
During the open day at Bishopscourt there was a vintage vehicle display. I caught this one as it was leaving. It had quite a turn of speed as it passed. I'm sorry I have no details or info about it, all I know is the engine was a steam one.
This steam funnel intrigued me all afternoon/evening at my work Xmas party so I grabbed the camera and snagged this. Not bad at all given I was well drunk LOL
Bridge over the Watercress Line steam railway, Alresford, Hampshire.
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Thanks for all the comments! To answer a few questions...
It's steam & smoke from a Watercress Line steam train going under a narrow road bridge at New Alresford, Hampshire, UK. Click on (map) below right for the location.
I live about 10 metres away from here - and yes, my whole house shakes when these things go past! :-)
Built in 1932 the Big Blue Engine No. 85 Merlin was the first three- cylinder engines in the whole of Ireland, weighing in at over 103tons.
I posted this photo to prove that Melbourne did indeed have one sunny day during the week that I was there. I hear the latest news is that the state of Victoria is to be battered by high winds and plenty of rain - again. So much for the predicted "hottest summer on record"! El Nino used to be "hot and dry", now it is "more dramatic weather conditions". [Notice how the goal posts are always being changed. Climate Change used to be called Global Warming until temperature averages didn't rise as predicted and the islands they said would be flooded are all still there. e.g. The Maldives. And the rich are still buying seaside properties.]
Really, the meteorologists can hardly get the weather right for a week, so take what they say about long term climate change with a BIG grain of salt (there is NO such thing as "settled science" - period). The climate is always changing and never more radically than at the end of the last ice age when there was not a factory in sight and the total human population is estimated to have been no more than about one million across the globe. Then sea levels rose by 50 metres. No, there's another agenda at work with this new climate religion promoted by the agitprop of the mainstream media and designed to impoverish The West - notice China and India (the two largest populations) don't give a fig for cutting coal and fossil fuels.
This old mechanical wonder sits outside the Steamworld at Rowville in Melbourne's east. A reminder of when the world was still sane.
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A wet autumn day in West Yorkshire sees WD 2-8-0 90733 and 4F 43924 simmering at Haworth. Seen during a Timeline Events photo charter,
Locomotives: War Department "Austerity" 2-8-0 90733 and Midland 4F Class 0-6-0 43924.
Location: Haworth on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.
Baron von Luftschneider's Steam Flying machine.
Weekend tablescrap project. Ideal for training for much bigger steam powered projects.
More photos: bricksafe.com/pages/horcikdesigns/steampunk-flying-machine