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A portrait of a steam engine in the Manchester Museum of Science & Industry
They fire up the engines every day, so about one hour efter opening they are up and running. Neat!
After a six month downtime, due to some warranty repairs... (the sordid details here) I have my Panasonic Lumix FZ4 back as of today! Yay! I probably won't be able to take any pictures until the weekend, so here are some images I took over the past summer...
Nickel Plate Road no. 765 is a 2-8-4 "Berkshire" type steam locomotive built for the Nickel Plate Road in 1944 by the Lima Locomotive Works. in Lima, Ohio. Classified as a "S-2" class Berkshire, the locomotive operated fast, heavy freight and passenger trains until retirement in 1958
The last steam engine made for this railroad company. This engine still makes runs across country with a load of passengers.
The Big Boy Steam Engine sits about 2 stories high, and is about 4 train cars long. She weighs over 750,000 tons. The wheels are about 6 feet high. My Grandpa George use to work on steam engines just like this out in Montana.
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Dalby, Queensland.
Description: Possibly part of the Moonie Highway construction, west of Dalby.
View the original image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/211595.
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: www.slq.qld.gov.au/research-collections.
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