Steam Power is the aesthetic pinnacle of Mechanical Propulsion

[650lb Sumo]

The Flying Scotsman

'Steam donkey' - this one was used for logging





They look great and the sound and smell!

They're also simple to maintain and fuel.

There's an urban legend that when British Rail converted from steam to diesel, they fiddled the paperwork and took a significant number of steam locomotives and hid them in a secret underground base in Wales. If there's a nuclear war, they'll still work. I'm not a steam expert, but I think you can burn wood in steam engines that are designed for coal, you just obviously get less power for more work.

 

[Dobymick]

Yeah they are cool. That ship engine vid is nice

Where I live there is a historic train route that still operates with it's original steam engine train for touristic reasons but people can still use as a normal mean of transportation. I have done the trip a few times and it's quite fun and it's a beautiful train on a gorgeous route

 

[650lb Sumo]

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Absolutely agree, TS. 100%.

I really like Victorian architecture too.

 

[Madmick]

If you're love Steampunk and you also play videogames you owe it to yourself to play one of the greatest games ever made. It holds up. It's not related to the first two, either, so it's perfectly fine to play it standalone.

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[William Huggins]

Pretty much, considering everything up to nuclear reactors have been used to create steam to power something.......

 

[djacobox372]

 

[Aegon Spengler]

That’s what peak male performance looks like

 

[lowlife]

very interesting thread TS. I wonder sometimes at what point is the tradeoff for the conveniences of technology simply not worth it.

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Hell ya brother