What could be better than.....

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Bacon and steam engines? Except maybe cooking bacon on your steam engine....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9wJwpLQjwM

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Bacon Butties!

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On a sort of related note, I once read in a rail magazine that Chinese steam locos had a spot for a tea pot built right into the backhead.

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On a sort of related note, I once read in a rail magazine that Chinese steam locos had a spot for a tea pot built right into the backhead.

If you look at the videos from the Great Central Railway in Britain, they have little white coffee mugs on the plate over the boiler doors.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=vAJbbGBE09s

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Now that's what I've been talking about here and there, cooking lunch on the coal scoop is a long standing British railway tradition. It's good to see the tradition carry on, I also noticed the loco is LNER 4771 Green Arrow Class V2 designed by Sir Nigel Gresley built in 1936 at Doncaster Works. That must have been just before it was withdrawn from preservation running just before the boiler certificate expired. Now it's on static display at York awaiting overhaul for mainline running.

Oh BTW Kel put York on your bucket list, the National Railway Museum has displays beyond words. There you'll find LNER 4468 Mallard, A4 Class perhaps Gresley's masterpiece being the fastest steam locomotive in the world at 125.88mph.

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Those British locomotives were wimpy in comparison to what we used in the USA

http://www.readingrailroad.org/gallery/images/steam/rdg_gallery_steam1821.jpg

Like this Reading 2-8-8-2

And the screw couplers the used were gay.

http://www.railway-technical.com/Screw-Coupling.jpg

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http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Aliens%20Guy/Noodle_Traincopy_zps8e7afe5c.jpg

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Look again, that's copper. (;->)

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Those British locomotives were wimpy in comparison to what we used in the USA

http://www.readingrailroad.org/gallery/images/steam/rdg_gallery_steam1821.jpg

Like this Reading 2-8-8-2


The British locomotives were faster and more efficient.




And the screw couplers the used were gay.


Actually they are quite innovative.

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Speaking of steam, a friend of mine who was a steam engine designer passed last month. RIP Bob.

http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=94686

This page has a recent photo of Bob.

http://www.steelwheelonsteelrail.com/

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The British locomotives were faster and more efficient.

You beat me to it. Yes they were. And how many steam engines do they still have in service compared to the US. British steam engines were workhorses.




Actually they are quite innovative.

Yeah, a hell of a lot better than the link and pin couplers we originally had here in the US. You know, the ones where if you miss the moving link you get killed?

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And the screw couplers the used were gay.



Gay? Are you 12?

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Yeah, a hell of a lot better than the link and pin couplers we originally had here in the US. You know, the ones where if you miss the moving link you get killed?

Not so much killed as maimed. A lot of railroad men lost hands and arms to link-and-pin couplers.

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my Uncle Art was the yardmaster for the UPRR in Los Angeles....I remember goiing
down to the yards to watch the steam trains come & go....wonderful stuff...

here is a better video of engine #X-844 going over Donner Pass near Lake Tahoe

my Daughter lives near the tracks, but missed this run.....go here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MqXsXFgSX8

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Until the Westinghouse air brake system came along brakemen had the most dangerous job walking the planks atop the cars to stop the train. That brings to mind that for the longest time I wondered what that periodic hollow chuffing sound was when a steam locomotive was standing. Then when I finally got up close and personal to one at the NH&I station in New Hope, Pennsylvania did I find out. Those vertical cylindrical objects on the side of the boiler are the steam driven air compressor. Like the driving cylinders they exhaust into the stack giving that hollow sound.