'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
Here's a good dose of pollution. A steam engine still being used to haul coal in China. It's apparently fired with low grade coal. Wait until you see what starts coming out the smoke stack!
Here's a good dose of pollution. A steam engine still being used to haul coal in China. It's apparently fired with low grade coal. Wait until you see what starts coming out the smoke stack!
Interesting We are worrying about Global warming? and China provides 70% of all pollution yikes
My family and I had a ride on one these steam engines / trains in Cuba a couple of years ago when touring a now shuttered sugar cane factory that is now a museum, and then rode a functioning steam engine train to a sugar cane plantation. It was fun and much like this train posted here. In the museum, there were all kinds of engines that were all painted up but were non functional.
Ironically, these antique steam engines were manufactured in the USA anywhere from the early 1900's up to the 30's and some are obviously still operational. They had manufacure plates on them that indicated where they were manuafactured, the manufacturer name and the date. It was cool! Brings back memories!
One reason why they are still a viable option in places like Cuba is that they are relatively simple in that pretty much any part for one could be made locally, and they will run off of pretty much anything that will burn. All you have to do is have enough heat energy in whatever you're burning to make enough steam and you're good to go.
I grow up around the CPR, my grandparents were supposedly upper crust CPR people. my father for many years was a Express messenger for the CPR. i spent my child hood riding on steam driven trains . to this day I love trains,
and if you have not taken VIA rail you are missing out, great way to travel imo.
