In fact, when I went back to check, there were TWO badly parked chuffer engines in said farm yard. As I've often had occasion to remark : The things you see when you're out without your gun!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yawn! Is it time to get up yet? Shame to see those locos sitting there and not doing what they were built to do. Can't tell from the photo, are they narrow gauge?
Hello Sir B. Yes, bit of a waste. And no, I don't think they're narrow gauge. Didn't have a close look, but I think they're about standard size. The boiler of the steam one looked as if it might be of aluminium, or some such monkey metal. Is that possible? The paints peeling, and the metal's not rusting.The problem is that, technologically, I stopped when the steam engine started, so it's more your pigeon than mine. Regards to you both, Mike.
You've always been my hero, older Bruv, but I hadn't realised you were old enough to know the original Hero who started steam technology with his aeolipile. I think it will be his 2001st birthday any-time now. If you're still sending him cards will you convey my good wishes, please?
By the way, Mike, that greyish cast to the boiler looks like zinc plated steel to my eye; I can't imagine aluminium would be any use near a steam-engine's fire-bed.
Hello Carl. Ref Hero (or Heron as some call him)of Alexandria's steam Turbine. I think it was more of a toy or mobile. I've seen illustrations of his design, and I think the best description of it is one that George Stevenson used to describe a rival engine at the Rainhill trials :- "That thing's got no guts". I don't think it could have been profitably used to drive anything; so I think that to credit him with 'starting steam technology' is overstating the case somewhat. Much luv, Big Bruv.
Granted the illustrations I've seen were feeble... but I doubt they were Hero/Heron's original working diagrams... I suppose I shall just have to build one and drive over in it to prove my point... As that explorer bloke said... I may be some time.
Given Hero's mediterranean climate he could probably have driven it from a well placed parabolic mirror. (which might double as a sail in our climate?)
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A picture of trains and no comment from my husband! How odd.
Isn't it? Especially as these two are parked with six or seven miles of you.
Warm regards, Mike.
P.s. I suppose it's possible that the big bear has not fully emerged from hibernation yet?
No, that's rot, we're well into June now.
Yawn! Is it time to get up yet? Shame to see those locos sitting there and not doing what they were built to do. Can't tell from the photo, are they narrow gauge?
Hello Sir B. Yes, bit of a waste. And no, I don't think they're narrow gauge. Didn't have a close look, but I think they're about standard size. The boiler of the steam one looked as if it might be of aluminium, or some such monkey metal. Is that possible? The paints peeling, and the metal's not rusting.The problem is that, technologically, I stopped when the steam engine started, so it's more your pigeon than mine.
Regards to you both, Mike.
You've always been my hero, older Bruv, but I hadn't realised you were old enough to know the original Hero who started steam technology with his aeolipile. I think it will be his 2001st birthday any-time now. If you're still sending him cards will you convey my good wishes, please?
By the way, Mike, that greyish cast to the boiler looks like zinc plated steel to my eye; I can't imagine aluminium would be any use near a steam-engine's fire-bed.
Hello Carl. Ref Hero (or Heron as some call him)of Alexandria's steam Turbine. I think it was more of a toy or mobile. I've seen illustrations of his design, and I think the best description of it is one that George Stevenson used to describe a rival engine at the Rainhill trials :- "That thing's got no guts". I don't think it could have been profitably used to drive anything; so I think that to credit him with 'starting steam technology' is overstating the case somewhat.
Much luv, Big Bruv.
Granted the illustrations I've seen were feeble... but I doubt they were Hero/Heron's original working diagrams... I suppose I shall just have to build one and drive over in it to prove my point... As that explorer bloke said... I may be some time.
Given Hero's mediterranean climate he could probably have driven it from a well placed parabolic mirror. (which might double as a sail in our climate?)
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