My town had our local Antique Steam and Gas Engine Show this weekend, which is an exceedingly lovely affair filled with happy purring motors (they're like cats, almost)---most of them belonged to tractors, which are limited in their ability to interest me, but there is however the steam aspect of it
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I didn't think anybody else on my flist would actually be interested in this! *purrs at*
They are so gorgeous---I love especially the big powerful things, the Worthington and, there's this one that they're still trying to put together into working order, a Vilter-Corliss . . . um, ammonia refridgerator (?) with a 24-foot flywheel---it's massive and it's just sitting there behind the Worthington like a big metal dragon, waiting to start up again.
*beyond glee at the thought of being one of the people working it when it starts*
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The A is majorly into the Mamod traction engines and is actually building his own steam train!
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*desires moar detail*
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But the website is: http://www.gdsf.co.uk/
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