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Gauge 1 Lego model of 1813 locomotive. The loco has been redesigned several times during its long work life from 1813 to 1862. The model shows the last form, which is on display in the London Science Museum, and of which there is a detailed, working replica from 1906 in the Deutsches Museum, Munich.
My next take on a practical, peumatic-driven Lego steam locomotive. The design is the "American" class 4-4-0 of the 1870ies.
The tender hides a capable pneumatic compressor that powers the 2 cylinder, long stroke 'steam' engine.
The "bopper" type caboose offers ample room for a battery box and rc receiver of choice. A Buwizz unit may be installed directly in the engine's cab, alternatively.
On of the pressing problems in rail vehicle design in the 19th century, next to the brake problem, was the coupling problem. I designed a new, brick-built coupler suitalbe for automatic coupling and decoupling, to circumvent the drawbacks and dangers of the contemporary link-and-pin coupling.
This extraordinary-looking 0-4-0WT steam loco was built in 1917 for Armstrong Vickers and passed to British Oil and Cake Mills, both at Erith, Kent. Originally preserved at Hollycombe House, Hampshire, it passed to Quainton Road and now on a private site.
The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is a 25 acre working Steam Museum with one of the UK's largest collections of locomotives, rolling stock and railway memorabilia. A re-created country station in the heyday of steam travel, offers steam train rides on certain days.
British Railways ex LNER GER locomotive 69671 is seen here coupled the wrong way heading towards Hatfield Peverel just before the Bunny Walk viaduct in Chelmsford UK in 1960.
134 of these were built between 1914 and 1924 originally as GER L77's locomotives then becoming LNER N7's in 1923 then finally as British Railways Standard N7 in 1948. They were extensively modified over their lives into various sub classes.
The full number of this one is unknown and just 1 example survived into preservation following their withdrawals from 1957-1962, the rest were scrapped.. They were replaced by electrification and EMU's on the Liverpool Street surburban services.
This photograph was taken by Dave, a colleague of mine and is posted with very kind permission.
exEssex Terminal Railway Steam Engine Number 9 idling outside the St. Jacobs Restoration Shop of the Southern Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society
Still able to take water from a water tank via a pen stock along the Ronceverte to Cass, W. Va., branch line of the C&O in 1971
I was born and raised in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, a small, rural community, home to somewhere between 5 and 6 thousand people in those days. Farming was the principle means of income. The Midwest Old Settlers and Threshers Reunion was founded in 1950. It seemed to me that this event, always held around Labor Day, was designed for wealthy farmers in the area to express the love they had for the machines they used. Originally, there were maybe 10 steam tractors, some threshing equipment, and instead of a static display, the engines were steamed up and running around the fairgrounds.
This event has grown to include antique cars, gasoline tractors, tons of ancient mechanical farm equipment, and lots of food supplied by the local churches. It is a huge affair.
The Case 110hp Steam Tractor I photographed here had a top speed of 2.37mph. Not very fast you may think, but fast enough to pull a 12-gang plow through virgin prairie soil. The Old Threshers festival (“thrashers” in the local vernacular I grew up with) had its emphasis squarely on work, and working efficiently. At the Reunion, nothing was static. Everything was steamed up, turned on and running.
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exEssex Terminal Railway Steam Engine Number 9 at the St. Jacobs Restoration Shop of the Southern Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society
A last look at the July 1971 fan trip of Reading 4-8-4 2102 steaming back to Ronceverte, in the wilds of West Virginia.
I watched them rebuild this Consolidation for many years and finely walked down and got some pictures. it lives in Fillmore but twice a month it makes weekend runs to Santa Paula.
Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally - 6th of June 2022
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Inside the cab of ex-Fryansford Cement Works Railway no 4, an 0-6-0ST built in 1916 by the Vulcan Iron Works in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
The brass handle just visible on the left is the grip for the classically American horizontal-pull regulator with ratchet and pawl.
Bellarine (Peninsula) Railway.