Steam locomotive machinery porn

Photo by Ian Shive : détail, steam museum. Pennsylvania

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very old, but very interesting how innovative the movie makers were with portable tracks, and using stage coaches for train cars? Very cool

Post by Mark Dalton.

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loading a logging train in 1926

pretty bare bones rail cars... 

From the wonderful and amazing photoshopping colorization artist Patty Allison https://www.facebook.com/imbuedwithhues and http://www.imbuedwithhues.com/

East Side peddler, New York, 1915.mn

Famous photo of Link's works about the last of the steam locomotives in the early 1950's

on the bottom left appears to be a Checker Model A in blue and white.

Circa 1906. Engine, Mount Washington Railway, White Mountains, New Hampshire

an artist of yarn, Olek, yarnbombed a locomotive

Photos from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/olek/the-train-that-stands-sti_b_3744900.html  and  http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/olek-crocheted-locomotive?context=featured

Unusual locomotive design

A rare picture of the second Fontaine, shown here arriving at St Thomas, Ontario, Canada, in July 1881, for trails on the Canada Southern Railroad. Engineer Ike Deyell stands in the gangway, whileFireman George Westfall is leaning from the cab.
 From A Locomotive Engineer's Album
 George B Abdill 1965

The cylinders were 17 x 24 in, the wheelbase was 23 ft 4 in, and the total heating surface (firebox + tubes) was 1033.5 sq ft. Total weight was 82,000 lb.
 (Info from Scientific American Supplement, 5th November 1881

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