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Raymond Loewy was the designer of several industrial icons that have now become the accepted familiar shape of objects.
R3510. Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Colliery Railway 0-6-2T No.5 making a vigorous departure from Goathland on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
Lambton No.5 was one of the earliest locomotives to run on the fledgling NYMR as was 1955 vintage 0-4-0ST MIRVALE seen on the right.
August, 1971. Copyright © Ron Fisher 1971.
Early steam locomotive with support tender. Boiler rests on tender frame, and cannot be decoupled. Large spark arrestor because fired with wood. Original colours unknown, but dark blue looks just right.
Having been detained at Quorn for ten minutes or more, class A1 no. 60163 'Tornado' gets away (with the occasional slip). David the fireman looks back along the platform to ensure the train leaves safely.
The day was what Scots would call 'dreich'.
Great Central Railway.
This is 0-4-0 crane tank no. 34, an Andrew Barclay product built in 1937. Standing in front of it is one of the 16-ton mineral wagons that were once ubiquitous on Britain's railways.
A brief history of the ironworks, south of Ilkeston, in Derbyshire, can be found here: www.ilkestonhistory.org.uk/history/industry/stantonironwo...
Photo by Neil Smedley, taken sometime in the period 1965-8. More of Neil's photos can be found here: www.flickr.com/groups/14774027@N21/
St Albans Steam & Country show, so many classic vehicles there, was a great day out, hope to go again.
76079 departs Ramsbottom with the 10:00 Bury to Rawtenstall on the 4th January 2003. This has always been one of my favourite pictures of the Pocket Rocket while it was at the ELR.
The famous Adler Steam engine from BlueBrixx is a real great set. Motorized with 9V, running smoothly. But the weight is high, so the axles have been replaced by original Lego ones.
This is Acton Yard, in west London, and, early in the morning, no. 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' is trundling along the Up Relief line with the empty stock for a rail tour before swinging left to join the Up Poplar* and then the North London Line. The train is on a circuitous journey from Southall to Victoria via some sidings at Willesden.
I thought this was one of my pics... until I saw that it had been taken with a Canon. I'm guessing it was sent to me by one of the other support crew. If he recognises his pic I'll gladly credit it to him!
Come to think of it... I might have been on the loco at the time.
*Back in the 19th century and even a bit into the latter half of the 20th, if you'd carried on round the North London Railway's line you'd have ended up at Poplar, in the East End of London. Nowadays Poplar station is on the Docklands Light Railway but isn't the NLR's Poplar, which is now called All Saints and is also on the DLR. However, line names that were created in the 1850s/60s linger on today for the national network, over 150 years on, which I think is rather nice.
London 2014
In earlier times the steam engine was used for opening and closing of the bridges of Tower Bridge.
S7067
Nene Valley Railway - the shiny bits that go!! Thought I ought to re-dress the balance, it's not all rusty! www.nvr.org.uk/
(Isn't it amazing where grass will grow!)
Or maybe just 'Tangoed'.
The glow is from the fire which, since we had been dragged back from Leicester by a 'Peak' diesel, is just burning gently to provide steam heating. Previously, from Loughborough to Leicester with ten vehicles (nine bogies plus a four-wheel van plus 138 tones of diesel - total over 450 tons), the fire had been white hot - actually pale yellow in colour.
Our superb loco, BR Standard class 5 no. 73156, was of course quite up to the job, and so was Matt who managed the boiler to perfection, and is seen here pleased with his work well done. The other guy is Carl, a member of the loco's owning group who was riding with us.
Quorn & Woodhouse, Great Central Railway.
Union Pacific's 4014 steam engine returned to Ogden for the 150th Anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike. 4014's last visit to Ogden was five years prior when it was being returned from a California Museum for refurbishment in Cheyenne. It was sandwiched between two UP diesels and was not under power. The photo show 4014 traveling through Uintas UT about three miles from Ogden on May 14, 2019.
2397 "Knowle" with a passenger train, emerging from Sharpthorne Tunnel at West Hoathly. Guest engine from Kent and East Sussex Railway.
Gauge 1 Lego model of 1813 locomotive. The loco has been redesigned several times during its long work life from 1813 to 1862. The model shows the last form, which is on display in the London Science Museum, and of which there is a detailed, working replica from 1906 in the Deutsches Museum, Munich.
In the Steam Expo Parade of Canadian and U.S. steam locomotives at the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication (Expo 86), a World's Fair held in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This is one of 17 photos.
A Roger Puta Photograph
6th March 2018. With only nine months before the boiler certificate of the Brit would expire. BR 7MT Britannia 4-6-2 No.70013 Oliver Cromwell makes an appearance at Oxenhope for a day with the 30742 Photo Group. The railway is part of the Keighley And Worth Valley Railway.
3440 "City of Truro" leaves Cheddleton with the 15:05 from Cheddleton to Froghall & Kingsley in the afternoon of the 26th June 2005.
A quick grab with my phone during a brief visit to the shed. '8F' no. 48305 under Empress Road bridge before taking up its evening diner duty.
Great Central Railway.
Typ: Personenzugtenderlokomotive, Serie Eb 3/5, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB-CFF-FFS)
Vorbild: 5818
Nachbildung: Epoche 3, Dreilicht-Spitzensignal
Modell: H0, AC, Räder und Gestänge brüniert
Leihgabe: UBE A222.1019
steamlocomotive.com says:
"The Southern Pacific Railroad only had one Camelback locomotive. It was number 2282 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1900 for is Sonora subsidiary in Mexico. This 4-6-0 was built specifically to burn inferior Arizona coal."
Photo from Ken Shattock.
LNER Class A1 Peppercorn 60163 Tornado
Tornado, 14 December 2008
Power type
Steam
Designer
Arthur Peppercorn (original designer)
Builder
A1 Steam Locomotive Trust
Build date
1994–2008
Configuration
4-6-2
Leading wheel
diameter
3 ft 2 in (0.97 m)
Driver diameter
6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Trailing wheel
diameter
3 ft 8 in (1.12 m)
Length
72 ft 11.75 in (22.24 m)
Width
9 ft 2.875 in (2.82 m)
Height
13 ft (3.96 m)
Axle load
22.1 long tons (22.5 t)
Weight on drivers
66.55 long tons (67.62 t)
Locomotive weight
105.2 long tons (106.9 t)[1]
Tender weight
60.9 long tons (61.9 t)
Locomotive & tender
combined weight
166.1 long tons (168.8 t)
Fuel type
Coal
Fuel capacity
7.5 long tons (7.6 t))
Water capacity
6,000 imp gal (27,000 L))
Boiler
Diagram 118
6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) diameter
29 ft 2 in (8.89 m) length
Boiler pressure
250 psi (1,700 kPa)
Firegrate area
50.0 sq ft (4.65 m2)
Heating surface:
Tubes
1,211.6 sq ft (112.56 m2)
Heating surface:
Flues
1,004.5 sq ft (93.32 m2)
Heating surface:
Firebox
245.3 sq ft (22.79 m2)
Heating surface:
Total
2,461.4 sq ft (228.67 m2)
Superheater area
697.7 sq ft (64.82 m2)
Cylinder size
19 in × 26 in (480 mm × 660 mm)
Top speed
100 mph (160 km/h) design[2]
75 mph (121 km/h) certified
Tractive effort
2,700 metric horsepower (2,000 kW)
Number
60163 (display)
98863 (TOPS)
Official name
Tornado
Axle load class
Route availability 9
First run
29 July 2008
Disposition
Operational. Approved for 75 mph (121 km/h) running on the Network Rail main line.
60163 Tornado is a main-line steam locomotive built in Darlington, England. Completed in 2008, Tornado was the first such locomotive built in the United Kingdom since Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, in 1960. Designed to meet modern safety and certification standards, Tornado runs on the UK rail network and on mainline-connected heritage railways. The locomotive is named after the Panavia Tornado military jet.
On a beautiful afternoon in late October, Valley Railroad Mikado #40 charges through the crossing at Ferry Road (MP 9.3), heading for North Chester, CT with the 2PM edition of the Steam Train/Riverboat excursion. The train is passing Hadlyme Station, which is out of view on the far side of the tracks. Just down the road on the left side of the frame is the dock for the Hadlyme Car Ferry, hence the name of the road.
The fall colors come just a bit later in Connecticut than they typically do elsewhere in New England, but it's a great time to take this combination excursion, as the cruise on the Connecticut River is even more spectacular than the train ride.
on the reverse:
Grand Trunk 559
Niagra Falls, Ontario 7/16/20
Raymond from Oldtimetrain website added this information:
"My research indicates it is S-1-f class 2-8-2 559 built MLW 53929 1913. Re#3464. Retired 1961."
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.
DRGW Consolidation #315 hauls a mixed freight and passenger consist across the Animas River at Tacoma, Colorado. Originally built as a wooden trestle in 1880, the bridge you see here was upgraded to an iron truss in 1894. It was designed to handle the weight of typical locomotives of the day and the Baldwin C-18 in this photo is pretty representative of that size. Nearly a century later, in 1981, when the old Silverton Branch became property of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, the existing truss was beefed up to handle the larger K-36 and K-37 locomotives that the new tourist line intended to run, both of which are considerably heavier than little 315.