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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...
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.