Fielding steam festival, this morning. And a friend (who shall remain nameless) playing engine driver. Now she wants a steam train.
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CrusaderRabbit
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Fielding steam festival, this morning. And a friend (who shall remain nameless) playing engine driver. Now she wants a steam train.
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My kind of heavy metal
A 110hp Case pulling a sled and putting on a show-
https://youtu.be/EVxByLO_6cA
Steam wins.
https://youtu.be/BeDLX9hzPoA
Neither the power nor the weight,like a Poodle trying to outpull an Elephant
If you are into steam a great place to visit is Oamaru. The town proclaims itself the “Steam-Punk Capital of NZ.” Here the theme is sic-fi based on the technology of the late 19th century and early 20th century. The theme includes fashion, transport (the Steam Train From Hell emerging from the ground) etc.. A bit silly but a fascinating diversion anyway. If I can find a web-page I shall post it.
Good. I’d love to see it, Cad.
Just go to Youtube and seek out “Steam Punk Oamaru” there are several results to look at.
ok thanks. I keep forgetting how much stuff is on Youtube.
My Grandmother used to call these “traction engines” and they were used for many purposes including running a sawmill as well as threshing and ploughing. (For the Yanks: “plowing.”) Amazing things which must weigh far more than a Sherman Tank.
And amazingly quiet, when they’re idling Cad.
Yet they are invariably referred to as “she!”
Don’t know who the lady is but she does remind me of Margaret Thatcher in her Tank without the headscarf.
Oh,this reminds me of a good one liner a Mennonite told me-What do you call a Buggy with two Horses?
An Amish sportscar
Great photo!
They built machines with *pride* in those days and they built them to *last*.
Damn right they did, Tranquil.
That would make a fine subject for a rant from someone with a better way with words than I can manage, how we’ve lost so much that is worthwhile – yet to point it out is to be almost automatically labelled a boring, redundant grumpy oldie. Or worse.
We had a fine day at that steam festival and it was as much due to the people as their machines. Perhaps more.
Feilding, I presume. A common misspelling.
Spelling Police I presume. A common irritant.