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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).
Superheated (originally) Garret traction engine "Olive" was noisily working the saw bench most of the day
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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Wismarer T2 Schienenbus, used on the Kleinbahn Bremen-Thedinghausen (Normalspur) 95 80 0 133 102-3 D-DGEG
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23mm, f/2.8, 1/6 sec op 100 ISO
Single RAW shot en Adobe Photoshop CS6
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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.