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8th February 2012, 10:56 PM #16.
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Wolf's Locomobilen 1862
With luck this wont get moved over to the car forum.
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8th February 2012, 11:12 PM #174-6-4
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Steam Engines
Greetings chaps If you can not get OS then right here in Melboutne we have the Spotswood Pumping Station at Science works. You have to ignore the kids destroying things and go to the Pumping Station near the river. They operate a rather large Triple Expansion Pumping Engine which has Corlis valve gear. This is one of a number still on site and can be viewed. Unfortunatly it is run on compressed air but all the bits work. On the cross head of the HP cylinder they stand a 20 cent coil on edge and it does not fall over when the beastie moves. I was involved in the restoration of the engine opposite the exhibited one and this is the one that occasionally runs on steam. 4-6-4
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10th February 2012, 12:39 AM #18Dave J Guest
Very nice, thanks for posting them Bob
Dave
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10th February 2012, 11:34 PM #19.
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From Prague - Kladno 1855
The initial photo is from the the National Technical Museum's website along with the following text. To me, these things are sculpture.
A half-tender steam locomotive KLADNO was manufactured by the engineering works of Vienna-Raab railway in 1855 under the serial number 295. It was supplied to the company of Bustehradska railway (BEB/BD) and included into the category I under the number 103. The locomotive was used mainly for transport of coal on the basic railway of the company from Kladno to Kralupy nad Vltavou since beginning of traffic in 1856. Technical specification: axle arrangement C2', duplex steam engine with external flat slide valves on cylinders and valve gear Gooch, third wheel set driven, hand screw brake on both tender axles. Very interesting is particularly the design of travel according to the system of Wilhelm Engerth in which the tender bears a part of the locomotive boiler weight. Three similar half-tender locomotives have only been preserved all round the world, KLADNO being the oldest of them.
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11th February 2012, 12:15 AM #20.
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No. 375.007
Built by Bohmisch-Mahrische Maschinenfabrik in Prague in 1911. The wheels are 1.9 metres in diameter.
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11th February 2012, 01:17 PM #21SENIOR MEMBER
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HI Bob,
Those Engines are Works of Art. The Musuem Building must be Huge judging by the Monster Size of the Precision Valve Steam Engine. Thanks for Posting Bob.All The Best steran50 Stewart
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11th February 2012, 04:34 PM #22Dave J Guest
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