Steam-Era is a festival held every Labour Day Weekend in the Town of Milton, Ontario featuring historic steam tractors. Well known for its eye on the...
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first decades of steam for railways in the United Kingdom, the United States, and much of Europe. Towards the end of the steam era, a longstanding British...
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A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern...
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found on a typical steam locomotive include: The diagram, which is not to scale, is a composite of various designs in the late steam era. Some components...
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Gunboat (section Pre-steam era)
against the British blockade during the War of 1812. With the introduction of steam power in the early 19th century, the Royal Navy and other navies built considerable...
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American Locomotive Company (section Steam era)
Hiawatha run. Among the ambitious state-of-the-art designs of the late steam era, Alco's Challengers, Big Boys, and high-speed streamliners stood out for...
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for disposing of ash more efficiently. Study of photographs from the steam era show it was not uncommon for piles of ash to be scattered around the depot...
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Royal Scot (train) (section Steam era)
better known as Electric Scots, in order to avoid clashing with the earlier steam locomotive class of that name. The first stop out of Euston became Preston...
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that name. It was extensively used in steam locomotives from the late 19th century until the end of the steam era. The Walschaerts valve gear was slow...
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Hancock air whistle (section Steam era)
railroads during the days of steam. The company produced many appliances, one of which was the popular long-bell three-chime steam whistle. When railroads...
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be employed. Towards the end of the steam era, steam motive power fell into a state of disrepair. The last steam locomotive built for mainline British...
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Romford–Upminster line (section Steam era)
Metro-Cammell Lightweight diesel multiple units from Stratford replaced the steam service and a twice-hourly service was introduced, effectively doubling...
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A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...
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not, there the weeds proliferate. From the railway era, only the color of the motor car and the steam workshop remained. The Hungarian Railway History Park...
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Shoeburyness Depot (section Steam Era Shed)
Prior to the electrification of the LTSR in the late 1950s/early 1960s a steam engine shed was located at Shoeburyness. The line opened in 1884 and the...
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subsequently went through several ownership changes in both the steam era and the preservation era before it eventually found its way to the Wilmington and Western...
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distances through dry country, dams and tanks were of importance to supply the steam engines in operation. Between Coolgardie and Esperance, water supply sources...
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operation of several large pumping engines. Originally, during much of the steam era, a large number of pilot and banking locomotives were required to assist...
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Steamboat (redirect from Steam boat)
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation...
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to the park. There were two distinct eras of operation for the Hutt Park railway station. The first covered steam-hauled race trains until 1949, the second...
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Steampunk (redirect from Steam punk)
industrial steam-powered machinery. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or the American frontier, where steam power...
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Otago Central Railway (section Steam era)
system to be fully dieselised. The last regular steam-hauled train left Cromwell on 23 February 1968. Two steam excursion trains later conveyed photographers...
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programme of tours with BR. In the post-privatisation era, the typical manner in which mainline steam trains are operated is for a promoter or customer to...
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Małaszewicze Railway line 2 in Małaszewicze Disused water crane from the steam era "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial...
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essentially a steam fair, but in the form of a museum Thursford Collection – steam museum featuring traction engines "Steam-Era". Ontario Steam & Antique...
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Hastings line (section Steam era (1845–1957))
along the line, requiring the use of dedicated rolling stock. Served by steam locomotives from opening until the late 1950s, passenger services were then...
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SteamOS is a Linux distribution developed by Valve. It incorporates Valve's popular namesake Steam video game storefront and is the primary operating system...
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Mulobezi Railway (section Steam era)
the branch line extends about 166 km northwest to Mulobezi. British-built steam locomotives were purchased from Rhodesia Railways (4-8-0 Class VII, VIII...
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The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history. It was originally applied to the history of Europe and...
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1872–1908, and the related Super Outer Circle Outer Circle railway line, a steam-era suburban railway line in Melbourne, Australia now the Outer Circle Trail...
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