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The Fairy Queen as seen during the parade of steam engines on 02-February-2007. ==== About the Fairy Queen ==== A Guinness World Record holder, this engine is the pride of the Indian Railways. It is the world's oldest locomotive in working condition. Built in 1855 by Kitson Thompson and Hewitson of Leeds, U.K. this.... more

Old Threshers museum in Mount Pleasant IA has a working collection of steam tractors & threshers & stationery engines from early America

A little bit of field research for one of our roleplaying games. NYMR steam train between Grosmont and Goathland. December 2006.

Antique Power Days 2008 at Salem, Illinois - Advance 20HP steam engine threshing and separating wheat grain and straw the old fashioned way on a Keck-Gonnerman separator. Keep watch for my part II on bailing the straw. See more discussion and photos on the STEAMERS board at Smokstak.com antique engine forum. http://www.smokstak.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51530

Don't miss this show! These clips were taken in the Fall of 2003 at one of the best gas and steam engine shows we've seen! For discussion, see: http://www.smokstak.com/forum/ http://old-engine.com/rollag.htm

As shown at the Brooks, Oregon Engine Show, this 200 HP Western Machine Co. engine was manufactured in 1928 in Los Angeles, Calif. and was used to pump water near Riverside, Calif. There were two of these engines setting side by side each pumping 2000 Gal. per minute over a 400 foot high hill, 8 miles into 7,500 acres.... more

The Nilgiri Mountain Railway is a World Heritage Railway. It is one of the very few remaining steam operated railways in the world. Opened on June 15,1899, it operates on meter gauge (1000 mm); and is the only rack and pinion hill railway in India, operating on a gradient of 1 in 12.50. The X Class engines of 0-8-2T.... more

A Victorian water pumping station in the village of Wombourne, near Wolverhampton, England, pumps water from a 160 ft deep borehole to a covered reservoir on Goldthorn Hill, from whence it is gravity-fed to the town of Bilston. The pumps were originally powered by a pair of in-line steam-powered engines which fell.... more

This engine is owned and shown by Dave Rotigel at the annual Zolfo Springs, Florida show. http://www.old-engine.com/zolfo.htm

In use from 1915 to 1970 in the oil fields of Northwest Pennsylvania as a natural gas pipeline compressor. 140 tons total weight, 67 feet long, speed 80 to 90 r.p.m., flywheel 27 tons and 18 feet diameter, crankshaft 12 tons and 16" diameter, bore 24", stroke 48", 39,600 cubic inches displacement! Two.... more