Posts Tagged ‘steam’

Steam Locomotive Manufacturing

Monday, November 11th, 2013

This is a pretty good video from 1935 detailing the manufacturing process of a steam locomotive (No 6207)  from start to finish.

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Centralia, Pa

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Few know the story of bustling coal mining town turned ghost town. This town didn’t dry up from a lack of coal, but an abundance. Prior to 1962 Centralia was a bustling coal mining town with over 1000 residents. However in 1962 the town’s volunteer fire department set the town landfill on fire as they […]

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Tractor Pulls

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Willcox, AZ tractor pulls.

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Six Stroke Engine

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Originally Featured on Auto Week   By PETE LYONS Bruce Crower has lived, breathed and built hot engines his whole life. Now he’s working on a cool one—one that harnesses normally-wasted heat energy by creating steam inside the combustion chamber, and using it to boost the engine’s power output and also to control its temperature. […]

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