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

     Thanks to all for your compliments, I am honored.

     I have collected many steam engines over the years, and they were all models, but eventually I guess many people get the urge to have an authentic antique engine that was actually used back in the day. I have only this one, and my unusual "spitjack engine", and that is probably as far as it will go. Most genuine period-used engines are of course just far too big (and/or expensive).

     Here I share two more photos, one of the unused bits that were left over (both original, and the parts that never got used - including some of the graphite packing cord). The other is a diagrammatic plan showing all the many parts of an entire steam car engine plant. The engine is located at the far lower right (white rectangle), and compared to the complexity of the rest of the system, it almost seems insignificant!

     Thanks again - G

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