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The Big Stuff => Full Sized Steam Engines => Topic started by: Jim on June 23, 2019, 08:28:44 pm

Title: Re: Just an old forgotten steam engine
Post by: Tadfafty on August 05, 2020, 06:17:19 pm
Appears the engine itself is missing.
Title: Re: Just an old forgotten steam engine
Post by: Stoker on July 31, 2020, 09:22:34 am
Bald tires suggest it was just a portable steam source and not a traction engine in its own right. If I'm not mistaken, inland from where Jim lives was both logging and gold mining country, so I suspect it was used in relation to one, or possibly both, as a lot of logging was done to service the mines, of those bygone times.
Title: Re: Just an old forgotten steam engine
Post by: St Paul Steam on July 31, 2020, 09:06:40 am
Interesting , if only it could speak and tell what it's life purpose was & how it got there.
Title: Re: Just an old forgotten steam engine
Post by: Hero on July 31, 2020, 07:55:57 am
Quote from: Nick on June 23, 2019, 08:35:00 pm
That would look great in my front yard  ;D

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Title: Re: Just an old forgotten steam engine
Post by: txlabman on July 30, 2020, 11:41:51 am
Love it.

Looks like a challenging restoration project for someone. 🤠
Title: Re: Just an old forgotten steam engine
Post by: Tadfafty on July 30, 2020, 12:45:05 am
At least its not sitting in mud.
Title: Re: Just an old forgotten steam engine
Post by: Jim on June 24, 2019, 05:57:13 pm
Quote from: Nick on June 24, 2019, 09:32:35 am
You figure that part out after it's in the yard  ;)  :D

LOL :)
Title: Re: Just an old forgotten steam engine
Post by: Stoker on June 24, 2019, 10:00:36 am
A veritable Rembrandt of yard art that one is ...   ;c)
Title: Re: Just an old forgotten steam engine
Post by: Nick on June 24, 2019, 09:32:35 am
Quote from: Roscoe on June 24, 2019, 09:23:18 am
Yep, that would look good in the front yard  just don’t know if I can get the wife on board.

You figure that part out after it's in the yard  ;)  :D
Title: Re: Just an old forgotten steam engine
Post by: Roscoe on June 24, 2019, 09:23:18 am
Yep, that would look good in the front yard  just don’t know if I can get the wife on board.
Title: Re: Just an old forgotten steam engine
Post by: Nick on June 23, 2019, 08:35:00 pm
That would look great in my front yard  ;D
Title: Just an old forgotten steam engine
Post by: Jim on June 23, 2019, 08:28:44 pm
My son and his family went camping on the weekend 4 hours inland from the coast and came across this old engine
that he sent me a photo of.


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