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Garrett 4NHP Showmans Tractor No. 33566. LITTLE BILLY. Reg. No. AD 9069. Built in 1919.
Sunday 17th July 2016
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
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.
The SRI crews had put in a long day that started well before sunrise and ended only with the last rays of the sun lighting up the 1225 and its train. A great day of photography. A Historic Transportation Preservation charter.
Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally - 6th of June 2022
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These steam cylinders could pack enough power to drive this 635,000 pound engine down the rails, pulling far more weight than that in railroad cars. They're not all that big, really, maybe three feet long and a foot and a half in diameter. The pressures inside were tremendous, 250 pounds per square inch.
The machining of the driver arms was extremely precise, within 1/10000th of an inch. Any inaccuracy in their length would result in either the wheel binding up.
This beautiful 4-8-4 is in Nashville's Centennial Park.
Stationary boiler and Steam engine. Made in England in the 1950s.
Taken out of storage so the grandkids can see it working, and perhaps marvel over it too!
exEssex Terminal Railway Steam Engine Number 9 at the St. Jacobs Restoration Shop of the Southern Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society
Taking a breather and surveying the scene during a water stop at Schweich in the Mosel valley.
Dig the seat with headrest (a Recaro?!). Contrast with the wooden tip-up seats in many UK loco cabs.
This long abandon 0-6-0 sits near a small set of grain silo's near Streator Illinois. I just stumbled on this while on my way home from Galesburg one year. I was going to photograph the then reciently abandoned mill in Streator.
For those who have followed the uploading of the Brian Perkes collection, this is a shot of the cover and spine of the album. It has become a bit dog eared on the outside but apart from some yellowing and fading the actual photos are still intact.
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Steam Loco WP 7161 was utilized for hauling of Steam Special from Delhi Cant. to Alwar. The information of the Engine is given below:
Easily recognized by the cone shaped bulging nose with (usually) a silver star painted on it, this locomotive became the standard passenger locomotive on Indian Railways post 1947. Experiencing a severe shortage of locomotive on the system in the mid 1940s coupled with unhappy past experiences with the IRS class of locomotives looming large, the order for 100 prototype WP was restricted to a mere 16 engines (on scale of two for each major broad gauge route). Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW), Philadelphia was awarded the task of building the first sixteen prototype WP class locomotives. These were numbered from 7200 to 7215 and went to GIPR, BB&CIR and EIR. The initial locos were called WP/P, the extra P indicating prototype. These engines soon earned the reputation for free steaming, fuel economy and good riding characteristics, also there was none of the ‘tail wag’ experience with these engines that was so characteristic of the XC class. On establishing their success further orders for WP locomotives went to Baldwin Canadian Locomotive Company (CLC) and Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) who shared the manufacturing the next 300 WP engines. These engines were numbered from 7216 to 7515 in order of the Railway to which they were allotted. A further 120 engines were ordered from Canadian Locomotive Company in 1955-56 and 60 more engines came from Poland and Austria between 1957-59, this loco was in production for 20 years from 1947 to 1967 from 53 locos in 1953, it reached a peak holding of 167 locos on Northern Railways in 1967. This Pacific class of broad gauge loco marked the change the coding from ‘X’ to ‘W’ for broad gauge locomotives. It was capable of doing up to 110 Km/h and remained Indian Railways crack locomotives for many years and hauled prestigious express trains. WP’s were designed specifically for low-calorie, high-ash Indian coal and its ease of handling made it a hot favourite amongst Loco drivers. Several WP’s remained in service until the late 80’s. Early prototypes from Baldwin were labelled WP/P, CLW versions after 1965 were labelled WP/1.
Rewari shed homes the WP 7200 and WP 7161, the former is from the first lot of prototypes that were handed over to Indian Railways by the United States in 1947. The locomotive was a part of Central Railway System (GIPR) but was transferred to Northern Railway later. Homed at Moradabad shed this locomotive was later shifted to Saharanpur shed, before it retired from active service. It is believed that WP 7200 was the first WP class of engine that was handed over to Indian Railways in USA on 15th August 1947, India’s Independent Day, though the engine physically arrived on the Indian shores in Oct’47. This adds to the historic importance of this locomotive, with this in mind, this locomotive previously called Shahjahan, after the great Mughal emperor who build the Taj Mahal, has been re-christened “AZAD”, meaning free in hindi.
WP 7161 is the Chittranjan Locomotive Works built engine, inducted into active service in 1965, this locomotive was also there was none of the ‘tail wag’ experience with these engines that was so characteristic of the XC class.
On establishing their success further orders for WP locomotives went to Baldwin Canadian Locomotive Company (CLC) and Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) who shared the manufacturing the next 300 WP engines. These engines were numbered from 7216 to 7515 in order of the Railway to which they were allotted. A further 120 engines were ordered from Canadian Locomotive Company in 1955-56 and 60 more engines came from Poland and Austria between 1957-59, this loco was in production for 20 years from 1947 to 1967 from 53 locos in 1953, it reached a peak holding of 167 locos on Northern Railways in 1967.
This Pacific class of broad gauge loco marked the change the coding from ‘X’ to ‘W’ for broad gauge locomotives. It was capable of doing up to 110 Km/h and remained Indian Railways crack locomotives for many years Source IRCTC
Union Pacific steam locomotive 844 made a stop in Brigham City on April 25, 2017 as part of its tour thru Wyoming, Idaho and Utah.
No. 14 "Charwelton" was a visitor to the KWVR for the Spring 1986 Steam Gala from its home on the Kent & East Sussex Railway. Here it's being prepared in Haworth Yard, prior to going off shed and working it's allocated services. I didn't get any colour shots of it actually moving, perhaps because the weather was very dull.
exEssex Terminal Railway Steam Engine Number 9 idling outside the St. Jacobs Restoration Shop of the Southern Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society
Number 25 of #67phonephotos. Taken at the Great North Steam Fair 2019 at Beamish Museum, County Durham. Nik Siver Efex edit.