Ok as promised some vids of IOW Steam Railway.

Just know Mr Owen will love these, should perk him up a bit.

I tell you guys these steam trains talk to you, just listen, sweat sound and of course being next to them the smell is brilliant, am i being converted to steam i think so, love it.

Click on links below and enjoy, :thumbs


First is the engine leaving the sidings to go and get onto the main line to couple up to the carriage's,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaSxqaJBzlo

Next the fireman coupling up, note his lack of gloves :Red Card

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI9tLFTTAPM


In this one my son got into the shot just before the end, say's he is 20 in August and no interest in trains but he was loving it, :thumbs,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzeX96IAw6k

Ok in this last one you tell me it ain't speaking to you, i tell you it is, just listen to it, gorgeous, :cool:.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgfZYsg-kjA

thats it, hope you enjoyed them and hope the quality was ok, my Fuji film 10.2 mega pixels was used for pics and also these video's. I think a good present last Chrimbo from the wife and retail at £80 or so pound so not bad.

Phill

Nice clear video, too. Thanks for posting,

Doug

Very nice Videos Phill im sure you had a lovely day there thanks for taking the time to post them.

Now that saddle tank did make a racket i assume that banging noise was that upright cylinder thing at the front of it perhaps one of our steam engine experts will inform us exactly what the particular noisy bit does

Brian

thanks from Mr Owen, Phill, yes they did give me a lift, good vids too,
as for the noisy bit on the front it is a pump to supply heat to the carriages ( hot water not steam ).

lol::cool:

Unless I'm contradicted by the more knowledgeable members, it's either a Weir's  Vertical Direct-Acting feed pump, an alternative to the feed water injector, OR a Westinghouse VDA air pump, which I think more likely as it burst into vigorous life when the chappy connected the train pipe, as it needed to renew the compressed air in the brake air reservoir [which Phil neatly panned to in the next shot!]

The Flying Scotsman has a similar, larger unit on thefront end of the starboard running board as it's an air-braker too.


Doug

Edited to correct  'Westinghouse'….sorry  see 


 westinghouse air pump - Google Search


or


weir feed pump - Google Search

well i tried ????
:cool:

Mental Note for Henryparrot


If anyone ever offfers me a sound chip for a steam engine that has one of these westinghouse things on politely say no thankyou

That noise would certainly drive me up the wall

Brian

It was leaking like a sive and also some hydrolic fluid was coming out as well but once on the move you never really notced it to be honest.

Phill

[user=52]henryparrot[/user] wrote:

Mental Note for Henryparrot


If anyone ever offfers me a sound chip for a steam engine that has one of these westinghouse things on politely say no thankyou

That noise would certainly drive me up the wall

Brian

Correctly set up it should go 'Pa-ang-Geng-Pa-ang-Geng-Pa-ang-Geng……..'


Whe I was a young RN engineer theses things would sit quietly unguarded in the boiler room until a feed water demand set them off, a sure trap for the keen green stoker with a piece of cotton waste looking for something to polish………:shock:

On the Ark Royal they were about 5ft high…..:shock::shock::shock:


Doug

I knew I'd heard it somewhere recently…..look here, at the very end of the lovely video you hear the air pump 'panging'….

Thanks to MROL.

http://www.mrol.com.au/Videos/VideoIsleofWight1963-1965.aspx

Doug


PS In the second video, did anyone else notice the inspection pit in the platform line at Ventnor [~6min-25secs]?

I've never seen that elsewhere.

D