115 tons of machinery with two double acting steam cylinders running compound to drive two water pumps. Ran from around 1914 to 1951 pumping 8 million gallons per day in York PA. I returned on December 10th to see it actually run on compressed air!
I have some videos up on my website that include snippets of this machine, plus a ribbon loom, a steam powered (actually compressed air for the demo) printing press and some small model engines.
You are a lucky so and so to have something like that in your area.
It must have been a sight to see it working - even if just on compressed air.
Martin
You are a lucky so and so to have something like that in your area.
It must have been a sight to see it working - even if just on compressed air.
Martin
Actually I envy folks in the UK where the idea of preservation seems to have a head start. There are videos on YouTube of some amazing Victorian era pumping stations where they still have run days periodically involving machines way bigger than this one. The NMIH is in what was formerly "Building 94," the electrical repair shop which was part of the Bethlehem Steel mill complex that stretched 5 miles along the Lehigh River. I had a chance to tour that mill with a metallurgy class in the 1960s, they took us around in busses! Getting there is about a 60 mile round trip for me, encumbered with some annoying traffic, or I might hang out there as a volunteer.