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» East County Line Road
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» August 30, 2009 |
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» Kevin Madore (more..)
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| Remarks & Notes |
| 400 tons of Swiss Watch That's the impression you're left with the first time you watch the passage of a Lima Berkshire Locomotive up close and at track speed. The lighting and the angle in this view highlight both the scale and the complexity of the machinery in this beast. It is difficult to imagine how something so powerful and so finely tuned could be made affordable in a slide rule era and yet prohibitively expensive in a computer age. (Of interest to the photographers out there, the greatest challenge in postprocessing this shot was cinder removal. The mechanical stoker in this locomotive pulverizes the coal and literally blasts the resulting slurry into the firebox. The combustion is so rapid that some of this material never hits the firebox grates before being caught up in the draft and blown out the stack. The result is a blizzard of cinders which look like dust spots all over the photo. I did my best to get most of them. See if your eyes are any better than mine!) |
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