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Buffalo Southern S4 #93 is at Eden Center, NY on September 21st 2012. Kodak Ektachrome 100, © Joe Geronimo.
Metropolitan 1 at the Bishop's Sutton foot crossing on Sunday March 9 with the 10.30am Alresford to Ropley.
Before electrification, the first two 'L' roads ran trains with wooden cars pulled by steam locomotives like this one here. These locomotives burned coal to heat water and create pressurized steam like any steam engine would, but were much smaller than what you might have seen in old movie footage of intercity railways. 'L' trains were light and the locomotives needed to be, too, so they could pick up speed and stop quickly, considering the close spacing of rapid transit stations.
The locomotive style is called a "Forney," after steam locomotive designer Matthias Forney, which could operate in either direction, helping to make it easier to attach a locomotive to the back side of a train at the end of a line, and change direction and run a reverse trip without having to turn a locomotive around.
The Lake Street 'L' actually named its locomotives in addition to numbering them. Seen here is #5, named "Lizzie A." (unfortunately, we're not sure who Lizzie was, but she probably was someone who had a relation to the 'L' company or someone else who did). The Lake Street 'L' ran steam locomotives until 1896, converting to electric power a little ahead of its slightly older peer serving the South Side, a separate company at the time.
The station in the background is Crawford, later renamed Pulaski.
20th June 2011 .Industrial Beyer-Garratt William Francis 6841, built in 1937 worked at the Baddesley Colliery . Four were built to work for industrial services in the country.
Soo Line 1003 at Rubicon, WI. Trip was sponsered by the Soo Line 1003 and Historic Transport Preservation.
Soo Line 1003 posses for night shots in Fairwater. Trip was sponsered by the Soo Line 1003 and Historic Transport Preservation. Lighting was provided by Tim Lab and Mike Allen.
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The Pickering War Weekend is a three-day event, which starts on Friday, commemorates the crucial role Britain’s railways played in the Second World War and provides a taste of life on the Home Front in 1943.
The photographs are taken in Goathland which is also known as Aidensfield in YTV’s Heartbeat and as the bewitching Hogsmeade in the first Harry Potter Film.
Clan Line hauls the British Pullman down Grosvenor Bank and into London Victoria station at the end of a VSOE Luncheon Excursion to Guildford / Shalford on Saturday February 9th 2013 - with the former Battersea Power Station in the background. Taken around 4pm, just as the rain stopped. I believe the railway sheds on the left are called the Grosvenor Bridge Depot or simply Grosvenor Shed? "The Golden Age of Travel by Steam" trip costs ÂŁ395 per person and includes a five-course lunch with champagne and half a bottle of wine per person.
Pictures from the Steam on the Met event - they are taken at various locations between Harrow on the HIll & Amersham (with the location in the title)
A fleet of heritage vehicles were used for this event to help mark the 150th Anniversary of London Underground:
Metropolitan Railway Locomotive No.1: www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/projects/met-1
GWR Small Prairie Tank 5521
Metropolitan Railway No.12 Sarah Siddons
Class 20's 20142, 20189 & 20227, of which 20189 (LT red) & 20227 (Current Tube livery) have been painted in special LU liveries
The rolling stock used consisted of a 4TC set along with the restored Metropolitan Railway Carriage No.353
Working most weekends means that I have limited access to operational steam these days, so when the rare opportunity arises with a steam engine operating locally on a day when I'm actually off, Something would be amiss for me not to go and see
Good Friday , 15 April 2022 finds 5917 on the second Canberra to Bungendore Shuttle of the weekend
The little HO scale steamer began as a N-scale 2-6-0 from Model Power. With 3D-printed pieces from Shapeways it is slowly turned into a beautiful little HOn30 narrow gauge locomotive.
A few more details are still missing along with more paint, decals, figures and weathering.
This wonderful image came to my attention in early November, 2016: I had never seen it before.
Considering that I have been collecting images of Winster for many years, I was delighted to "discover" it.
I hope there are many, many more images of Winster yet to be "discovered" which are able to find a place in this Flickr collection.
My thanks are due to Andy Wood who uploaded the image to Facebook's Old Matlock pics where I spotted it and who has kindly given me permission to display it here.
These photos are from archive of National Rail Museum were displayed in an exhibition held in Delhi recently
1914 FOWLER OF LEEDS Road Loco owned by Barracks Aberdeen and 1913 BURREL Road Loco owned Semper Fidelis
This 1881 traction engine was built by McLaren as a general purpose engine. I believe that her boiler was probably not certified by this time (1981) and in 1985 she was purchased by the Science Museum, who currently have her in store - available for professional research only. Not looking bad for her 100 years in this view at Hollycombe, Hampshire.
Today, 9-27-2016 is the anniversary of the first railway passenger service in 1825. It was on the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England.
Text Garrison Keillor's "The Writers Almanac"
The first steam-powered passenger railway began service in England on this date in 1825. It brought together the work of George Stephenson, builder of coal mine steam engines, and Edward Pease, who wanted to build a delivery system to bring coal to the market towns of Darlington and Stockton-on-Tees. Some Stockton businessmen advocated a canal system, but the other two towns on the line - Darlington and Yarm - both wanted a railway. Pease was planning to use horse-drawn coal wagons, however, until Stephenson informed him that a steam engine could pull a load 50 times greater than horses could manage. So a proposal for a railway line went before Parliament, and was thrown out twice. In 1821, supporters of the railway submitted a petition with 785 signatures, and the plan was finally approved. As an afterthought, the drafters of the official document added the permission to carry passengers on the train.
The train's inaugural journey went from Shildon to Stockton, with a top speed of 12 miles per hour. A man on horseback went before the train, carrying a banner that read Periculum privatum utilitas publica ("The private danger is the public good"). About 600 people were aboard, most of them riding in open coal cars. Dignitaries and rich backers rode in the sole passenger coach, which had been dubbed "The Experiment," and which had been built at a cost of 80 pounds sterling. George Stephenson rode on the footplate. A brass band boarded the train at Yarm to complete the journey, where the first steam-powered passenger train was greeted with a 21-gun salute and "God Save the Queen."
Modified Text, from "Wikipedia"
The No. 1 engine, called Locomotion, for the Stockton & Darlington Railway
Locomotion used all the improvements that George Stephenson had pioneered in the Killingworth locomotives. It used high-pressure steam from a centre-flue boiler, with a steam-blast in the chimney, to drive two vertical cylinders, enclosed within the boiler. A pair of yokes above them transmitted the power downwards, through pairs of connecting rods. It made use of a loose eccentric valve gear,[3] and was the first locomotive to use coupling rods to link its driving wheels together, rather than through a chain or gears. Because of the single flue, it had a poor heating surface compared to later steam locomotives.
This locomotive is historically important as being the first to run on a public railway,[4] rather than for the innovations in its design. It hauled the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway on 27 September 1825.
On 1 July 1828, the boiler exploded at Aycliffe Lane station, killing the driver John Cree.[5] With advances in design such as those incorporated into Robert Stephenson's Rocket, Locomotion became obsolete very quickly. It was rebuilt and remained in service until 1841 when it was turned into a stationary engine.
I believe this was taken at the Steam Power show near Sycamore, Illinois in the 1980's or 90's. Nichols & Shepard (L), unknown (R).
SHOT AT DOBWALLS FAMILY ADVENTURE PARK NR LISKEARD 1999. SADLY RAILWAY HAS NOW BEEN SOLD OFF TO A NEW OWNER