Today we chased a train, a steam engine that was doing a round trip excursion from Birmingham AL to Parrish AL. Very cool to see.

old steam engine at conoor

SR 'U' Class 2-6-0 31806 under light steam at Swanage 30/07/15

Steam surrounds a crew member of the Nevada Northern Railway as they apply oil to engine 93.

A guest engine visiting the Nene valley railway over the Easter weekend.

On display at the Anthracite Heritage Museum is this pristine single cylinder stationary steam engine.

This is what works in my son's machine. I have no idea what the tolerance spread on these machines is. Measurements in mm.

Douglas station on the Isle of Man the location for this shot of I.O.M Railway No.11 "Maitland" captured in August 1980.

Camera: Olympus OM1 35mm SLR.

Dampfmaschine im Museum im Wasserwerk Friedrichshagen, Berlin, Deutschland.

Steamengine at 'Museum im Wasserwerk Friedrichshagen', Berlin, Germany

Old # 75 pulls in to Calera

Nevada Northern 93 snakes through the snowy Robinson Canyon with a wrecking train in tow.

Bewdley

www.steam-shows.com/

2nd run, only minor fuel leak now. Choo, Choo!

Engine 186

I thought this was a good scheme to transport the heavy engine.

The last of the train pics. I promise.

This young lad let me take this photo of him placing the pennies before the steam train arrived. After almost everyone there had done the same we were told it is not allowed. duhooo too late. (This is another scanned negative)

Began replacing with Diesel Engines in the 1950's.

HAVING BEEN TO TARMACS YARD AT ETTINGSHALL (1999) I CAN SEE IT WOULD NOT LOOK OUT OF PLACE SITTING IN THE WORKSHOP

not mine

Digital image

Like the Wheel of Fortune...

Model Die Casting. It came with a homemade tender. I replaced it with a vintage cast MDC tender, like it was supposed to have.

Spotting the screw holes.

SHOT 2001-2003 AT SHEFFIELD PARK

Shiplift Henrichenburg.

I have taken this Pic with my Mamiya C33 with several Lenses from 55mm to 250mm.

I have used a AGFA PAN 100,expired since 1993 and developed in Rodinal 1+50. Scannend with Canon 9000 F and VueScan.After scanning i have processed with LR4 and CS2.

Steam into History

The weather sucked, but the colder than average temperatures really enhanced the effect of the steam clouds, so I guess I can't complain too much.

M5798

Taken inside the engine shed thanks to a very obliging lady who opened up for me on a non working day.

West Bergholt Country Show 2011

Blossom

Model Die Casting