Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

If I may add few pics to this thread near St. Louis , MO ; the first is long gone 20KW single phase generators directly connected to a Pelton water wheel. The massive steam engine from a municipal water supply was used to pump water from the water treatment plant to a distant reservoir and city water mains, but some if the pressurized water in the pipeline was diverted off to power a water wheels that powered these electric generators.

The remaining pics are of steam engines that still exist today, albeit rotting in a rotting city, —- a Frick steam engine and two generators and engine room of old Armour plant ,