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60019 Bittern hauls the Dorset Coast Express approaching Barnes Bridge station at 9:14am on Thursday July 19 2012. A day return excursion from London Victoria to Weymouth.
Please note my brother's comment below (Surfacenoise4me) ...he has corrected the following description! According to my co-workers, who have fished this area all their lives, this little steam operated rail car was much further into the woods, but the river has slowly reached out to claim it. You can just see a portion of the original rail behind the left wheel. I will be investigating this when the weather turns a little colder so I don't have to worry about snakes. They thought the steam engine was what powered this little car, but I think it may have been pulled by an actual steam engine and that it's steam power was used to power some device on the back of the car used in logging the area.
A steam powered mining hoist. I've seen nonfunctional examples of these around the mines of Colorado (and frequently a bit larger).
This was a bit of a grungy looking machine that leaked steam all over the place, but it was still working.
It probably came from a mine in southern Missouri.
Steam Engines.
Identity of subject, location or photographer (Some one in the family is all I know.) not known.
Superheated (originally) Garret traction engine "Olive" was noisily working the saw bench most of the day
Train was hauled by Steam Locomotives 44871 and 45407 The Lancashire Fusilier - both Stanier Black Five Class 5MT 4-6-0.
Taken at the County Game Fair at Parham House.
This is a detail of the side of one of the steam engines of display. I loved the distressed nature of the paint and the oil stains.
Steam engines are really gigantic water boilers. The pressures generated are enormous, and the way that those pressures were dealt with back in the steam age were to use lots and lots of steel with lots and lots of big nuts on big bolts. This locomotive weighed in at a hefty 394,000 pounds. Even so, steam engine failures were more frequent than would be considered at all acceptable today. What would usually happen was the engineer or fireman would be trying to get just a little bit more pressure out of the engine by throwing just a little bit more coal into the firebox. At some point, the coal was injecting more heat into the system than the boiling water could carry away. At that point, the temperature of the metal would rise too high, and the metal would begin to glow red hot as it radiated the excess heat. But the damage was done. The metal was now too weak to withstand the pressure, and it would crack. In that instant the pressure inside the boiler would drop to atmospheric pressure and every drop of water in the boiler would be converted to steam. The resulting explosion would reduce the steam engine to hundreds of thousands of pounds of nearly supersonic shrapnel. More often than not, they'd never find the engineer and fireman. Anyone else unfortunate enough to be nearby would also die instantly, if not from the flying parts of the engine, then from the shock wave or the superheated steam. Steam engines were inherently unsafe, which was one of the driving forces that led raliroads to switch over to diesel/electric engines, which were also much more economical to use.
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This massive steam piston and belt wheel came out of a sawmill in Sarnia, and was donated to the Western Ontario Steam Threshers for taking it out of the building it was in. It is brought out for display each year. That pulley wheel is about 12 feet in diameter.
Steam powered ferris wheel and fully automated warehouse cargo Three cranes horse and wagon fully synched deliver Old Europe chocolate cargo to the boat from warehouse,shared steam engine lso powers ferris wheel in village square.
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