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South Simcoe Railway running some steam again after countless volunteer man hours and hundreds of thousands dollars of locally raised money.
Beeton, Ontario, Canada.
Owned by the South Peace Centennial Museum, this is the oldest engine in our collection. Very few of this small, early model were produced. It came to Heisler AB in 1912 & to the Spirit River/Woking area in 1922 where it was used for threshing & to power a sawmill until the late 1930s. In 1964 it was purchased by Fred Tveter & Arnold Christianson who took it to Valhalla & restored it. In 1967 it moved to the McLean farm near Beaverlodge to form the basis of the first Pioneer Day which led to the establishment of the South Peace Centennial Museum. It was last used in 1998 as the 1999 testing confirmed the boiler unsafe for further operation. The engine is complete & authentic in all detail & the SPCM hopes to eventually raise the $55,000 needed to replace the boiler.
Another pair of pasters from The American Locomotive Company of Schenectady, New York. These two depict two powerful locomotives of The Lehigh Valley Railroad. The engines of this class were designed to pull heavy freight trains.
The tenders of these engines sport "Bethlehem Boosters", which were designed to increase power ascending The Valley's steep graded mountains in Pennsylvania. Not having worked as intended, these boosters were removed from the tenders.
Sadly, no Lehigh Valley steam engines escaped the scrappers torch….
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
Nickel Plate Road #765 spotted at the depot at North Judson, IN as part of the Hoosier Valley RR Museum's Railfan Photo Day.
I couldn't decide between the color or the black-and-white version...so I posted both.
Thanks to Kelly Lynch and the crew and staff of both the Fort Wayne RR Historical Society and the HVRM for a terrific day despite challenging weather conditions.
These photos are from archive of National Rail Museum were displayed in an exhibition held in Delhi recently
True Lines Trains fumbled on this model. However a great testament to TLT was they did everything they could to satisfy their customers.
This is a rebuilt unit taken back and refurbished. My unit runs great pulls nice. Mostly a display model now.
At 'Steaming Under the Southern Cross' August 2006. Jondaryan Woolshed west of Toowoomba, Queensland. The axe in the foreground would be used to keep a supply of firewood up to the steam engine.
A fine oscillatory steam engine ,spirit fired with safety valve , whistle and regulator valve. The boiler side plates appear to come from a Bowman model but the engine with its displacement lubricator and brass flywheel do not look like any commercial model I have seen.
Close-up of a garden railway train coming through town. Taken at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden CO.
The Avery Undermount Steam Engine is relatively rare. What sets it apart from the traditional steam engine is that all the working parts are mounted on a chassis below the boiler preventing stress to the boiler itself. In catalogs of the time the merits of this design as opposed to the traditional ones raged back and forth.
I like this design because it looks cool. It looks more like a steam locomotive than a farm implement. It’s just a cool design.
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The Hornsby Chain-Track Tractor is the ancestor of all "caterpillars". After some petroleum-powered prototypes, in 1909 a steam-powered unit was sold for work in the Yukon Territories, where oil was scare but coal and water abundant. The steam engine (Boiler and machine aggregate) was delivered by William Foster, of Lincoln. The track system and steering was created by David Roberts at Hornsby Co.
The Roberts patent rights were sold to the Holt Co in early 1914, which was in 1925 absorbed into the Caterpillar Co.
Today, only the chain tracks of the Hornsby Steam Crawler have survived.
There is a breathtaking live steam model of this tractor at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hvzBofFfzA which helped me a lot in figuring out the right proportions.
The fireman stokes the fire on Flagg Coal Co. #75 which visited the Lebanon, Mason and Monroe Railway this weekend.
Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally - 6th of June 2022
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This was originally going to be a telephoto shot, and then I realized how glorious the bigger scenic panorama was and quickly switched to wide angle. The boxcars look a little scruffy because we had just started the painting process. One has a first coat, two have just been scraped, and none have any lettering. For a few miles of "desert" railroad, the NN is amazingly scenic.