#steam train

[life-spire]

[steampunktendencies]

The Great Train Graveyard in Uyuni, Bolivia is a unique tourist attraction in addition to the famous salt flats and red lakes. The area is home to a collection of abandoned, vintage trains that were originally intended to expand the transportation network in the early 19th century. However, due to technical challenges and conflicts with local indigenous communities, the project was never completed. The trains were later used to transport minerals to port cities, but when the mineral resources depleted in the 1940s, the miners left and the trains were left to deteriorate in the desert. Over time, exposure to salty winds has caused the trains to corrode, creating the fascinating landscape of the Great Train Graveyard that exists today.

Credits: Keith Alexander

[thewolffinsnow]

Steam power

[connorphilpphotography]

The Jacobite, Glenfinnan Viaduct

[dutchs-blog]

Steamy Power Locomotive 🚂

[alteredstatesstuff]

old steam engine

[2inx4inx8inbrick]

Union Pacific Bigboy 4014 at Linwood Kansas on its way to Topeka KS

taken 10/17/24

[jesus-holding-your-fave]

i have a very odd request: can jesus hold a steam train and the lesbian flag at the same time? it’s an inside joke and i need to show it to someone-

Today, Jesus is holding:

A steam train and a lesbian flag

[seaswine]

"We've no money to mend you... to the back of the shed you'll go"

[womblegrinch]

Terence Cuneo (1907-1996) - The 'Flying Scotsman', 4472

Oil on canvas. Painted c.1972.

29.9 x 40.2 inches, 76 x 102 cm. Estimate: £30,000-50,000.

Sold Sworders, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, 1 Oct 2024 for £29,000 + B.P.

The Flying Scotsman, still in service, is the most iconic steam locomotive in the UK.

[dampfloks]

Dampflokomotive 23 023 Stoom Stichting Nederland (SSN) zu besuch bei Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij (VSM) in Apeldoorn (NL)

Terug naar Toen September 2024

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Steam locomotive 23 023 Stoom Stichting Nederland (SSN) visiting the Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij (VSM) in Apeldoorn (NL)

Terug naar Toen September 2024

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La locomotive à vapeur 23 023 Stoom Stichting Nederland (SSN) en visite chez Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij (VSM) à Apeldoorn (NL)

Terug naar Toen septembre 2024

Vidéo 1920x1080 avec audio

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(zoom in!)

Two double-headers on the Trans-Gooiw Railroad passing each other in the hills, dragging long freight trains behind them, during the early days of the Pan-Mellanus Oil Crisis.

More mellanoid trains: Guz's Model Garratt | Museum-piece carrying rocket parts | Advanced Steam Tank Engine | Guz's bigger model Garratt | Tram and Coal Mine loco sketches.

The diesel-hydraulic at the front of the foreground consist, already somewhat old and tired by this point, dates back to around the time period that steam engines were originally retired on Mellanus. It's not very fuel efficient as it is, and with the oil rations, diesels can not handle the trains on their own any longer.

For a few years now the railroads have been taking their steam engines out of mothballs and museums, as coal was comparatively dirt-cheap. Still though, the various maintenance and operational complexities of running steam locomotives resulted in a lot of losses for the railroads.

Pictured here behind the diesel is an early attempt at the Advanced Steam Engine concept, modifying a member of a very prolific and successful 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt class with a gas producer combustion system, more modern cylinders and valve gear, and entirely replacing the cab with an electronic control system (with the more diesel-like control stands moved to separate cabs on the tenders). The electronic control scheme allows for the steam engine to be connected to a diesel engine to be run as a multiple unit, cutting down operational costs. However, as a modified prototype, this locomotive lacks some of the other features which exemplified the Advanced Steam era, such as modular ashpans, computerized control, and precision engineering.

On the other track, moving the opposite direction, we see a double header of two steam locomotives, another 2-8-0+0-8-2 loaned from the Slaibsgloth Coal Mine Railroad, and a 2-10-2 'easy' type non-articulated loco leads the train. In this case, there is no electronic connection, so a crew of four mellanoid slimes is necessary to operate the train.

The eagle-eyed railway fans will notice that there are radiators for a dynamic brake on the diesel, yet the diesel is an electric. Diesel-electric dynamic brakes switch the traction motors into generators, and dump the electricity out as waste heat--but there's no traction motors on a hydraulic. So why the radiator fins? There's still a dynamic engine brake on the diesel-hydraulic, so it still needs to be able to dissipate heat, especially on the mountain routes.

WIP images follow:

[jirkosproduction]

Steam locomotive from Germany

23.1097

[redgriffinsphotos]

Praries and Panniers, Bodmin and Wenford Railway, 2013

[connorphilpphotography]

The Jacobite at Glenfinnan Viaduct

[dutchs-blog]

Let's Go To Work