Tasik Madu on the island of JavaTasik Madu was (and is) the flagship mill of the Yogya/Solo area, being built in grand style for the then Sunan (Sultan) of Solo. Steam survives in quantity here for yard work and the tourist operation but the field lines and… Read More
it has a wheel and its an engine and its the largest of it's kind in the world.... the Laxey WheelThe triskelion on the front of the wheel is backwards. This happened by accident when transferring the image onto the wall; they forgot to reverse it, so, it's actually a mirror image of the symbol of Mann.The heraldic device… Read More
Graham Lee's 1899 Hunslet locomotive is on display in Spooners Bar, in Wales... how in the hell did they get it in there? Remove a wall?http://trainrover.blogspot.com/2013/08/introduction-to-wales-11-august-2013.html… Read More
When Union Pacific began looking for ways to reuse its obsolete steam locomotives, the company began experimenting with the iron horses.The Union Pacific 844 is the last steam engine the American Locomotive Company’s (Alco) factory built in December 1944, and it represented the epitome of steam locomotive technology.The result of seven years of development fo… Read More
Steam locomotive graveyard, Queenstown South AfricaPhotos by Piet Conradie http://steam-locomotives-south-africa.blogspot.com/2009/09/queenstown-locomotive-graveyard.html … Read More
