Last month I finished building a St Helens steam engine. This a model of an engine built to pump water for the Kirkby area of England in 1880. The ful size engine was a two cylinder compound with one 60 " and one 32" cylinder. The engine was rated to pump 1.5 million gallons of well water per 24 hour period. I bought the castings from a German company called Steel of Steam. [ Guests cannot view attachments ] If you scroll down you will find more pictures.
What an incredible build.....love to see some more photos of this beauty.
Help ...... my jaw is hanging down on my keyboard!!!
WOW
Yes yes...more pictures please, you can't just tease us with ONE photo. This is amazing. We would leave to see it in operation.
I will try to add pictures:
Thanks for the extra photos, most are nearly identical, but from the one that showed a little bit of the mechanics, looks really nice and complex. Well done from what I can discern.
Very well done, congratulations on an impressive build. I tried to find the supplier but no luck, could you provide a link?
Bob
What a beautiful build!!!
Clif, got to see you and the engine in a video today posted by Gale, looks like you’re having a good time at a show I need to make it to sometime!!
Very nice built - model was designed and distributed by Lothar Matrian, Dortmund Germany
Today steamofsteel.de has the castings/plans in their program. Lothar is retired today.
Arnold
One of my models:
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Awesome model engine, Clif..!!!