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Taken by leaning out the side of an open carriage being hauled by a stream engine. It was incredibly bumpy so I'm lucky this came out as smooth as it did (it took quite a few attempts).
Strack threshing bundles of grain with steam engine and threshing machine. Steam power brought with it more power to do the farming chores quickly on the northern prairies.
Courtesy of Stavig House Museum
Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries Limited was a major British agricultural machinery maker also producing a wide range of general engineering products in Ipswich, Suffolk including traction engines, trolleybuses, ploughs, lawn mowers, combine harvesters and other tilling equipment.
War Class AWE 22907
This is one of the war design locomotives procured in large numbers during early 1940’s and used for both and passenger and goods services.Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works Philadelphia USA.It weighs 183 tonnes it has Washaeterts valve gear,two outside cylinders wheel arrangement 2-8-2
This engine is on display at Rewari Loco Shed
Locomotive à vapeur N°105 du Blonay-Chamby (ex Zell-Todtnau de la Forêt Noire) en manoeuvre au dépôt du musée à Chaulin. A droite, ancienne voiture de IIIème classe des chemins de fer de l'Oberland bernois.
Dampflok Nr. 105 der Blonay-Chamby Museumbahn (ehem. Zell-Todtnau, Schwarzwald).
LMS Jubilee class No. 45690 'Leander' on 1Z76 'The North Wales Coast Express' from Liverpool Lime Street - Holyhead passing through Edge Hill Station, 21st July 2019
This is my daughter when she was about seven, in an old steam engine at a playground in Geraldton.
Somebody is going to tell me all about that loco, isn't he . . . ?
A fascinating water pump engine seen at Kew Bridge. I am planning a model of this engine in Meccano so watch this space!
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.
As dorky as I think all the steam-[____] craze is, standing next to this steam engine in a ship's engine-room had me truly weak at the knees. The last time I saw god, was at the blind apex of Turn 5 at Thunderhill. I might have just seen her again, today. :)
Separately: seriously crappy video, but- wow- what an experience to stand above/next-to that!!!
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.
Old Steam Locomotive on display in the Hay Market in Lincoln Nebraska A Chicgo Burlington & Quincy K-4 class 4-6-0.
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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