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Gallery, Projects and General => Neat Stuff => Topic started by: vtsteam on May 11, 2015, 09:00:41 AM

Title: US Vertical Boiler Traction Engine
Post by: vtsteam on May 11, 2015, 09:00:41 AM

I've been researching borax as a flux and came across this fantastic Wikipedia image of a traction engine hauling borax out of Death Valley.

Reduced sized image here to fit the forum page:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Hauling_Borax%2C_Death_Valley%2C_1904.jpg/800px-Hauling_Borax%2C_Death_Valley%2C_1904.jpg)

And the original larger image here:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Hauling_Borax%2C_Death_Valley%2C_1904.jpg

Title: Re: US Vertical Boiler Traction Engine
Post by: vtsteam on May 11, 2015, 10:32:16 AM

It looks to me as if the front wheel is as tall as the woman (or girl) seated beside it, if she were standing.