Tonight at midnight, RyPN will be converted to SPN--Steam Preservation News: news on steam automobiles, steamships, steam submarines, steam aircraft, and (Hume's Favorite) steam buses.
Go steam, go Trailways!

It's going to become SBN, Steam Bus News. I'm just going to do what I want and feel good about it.

(You don't think it's too obscure a topic, do you? Like maybe we won't get any hits.....)

> Tonight at midnight, RyPN will be converted
> to SPN--Steam Preservation News: news on
> steam automobiles, steamships, steam
> submarines, steam aircraft, and (Hume's
> Favorite) steam buses.
> Go steam, go Trailways!


Preserved Buses
hkading@rypn.org

Hume should know what I mean!
I do have video of the Bessler Steam Airplane


djdewey@cncnet.com

> Tonight at midnight, RyPN will be converted
> to SPN--Steam Preservation News: news on
> steam automobiles, steamships, steam
> submarines, steam aircraft, and (Hume's
> Favorite) steam buses.
> Go steam, go Trailways!

Steam pumps, you forgot steam pumps...

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

Surviving World Steam Locomotives
http://www.pernet.net/~james1/us_steam

Surviving World Steam Vehicles
http://www.pernet.net/~james1/steam_tr

Surviving World Steamships
http://www.pernet.net/~james1/steamship

Surviving World Steam Locomotives
james1@pernet.net

Don't forget about the steam powered K-boat submarines of the British navy during WWI. Besides the steam turbine electric these boats had the typical storage batteries and an oil engine connected to a generator!

Really.

Brian Norden

bnorden49@earthlink.net

> Don't forget about the steam powered K-boat
> submarines of the British navy during WWI.
> Besides the steam turbine electric these
> boats had the typical storage batteries and
> an oil engine connected to a generator!

And warm beer thanks to Lucas refrigerators.

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

Is it too late to suggest spicing things up by covering steam baths?

wyld@sbcglobal.net

> Is it too late to suggest spicing things up
> by covering steam baths?

Only if:

A. It is April 1st.

B. The steam bath is aboard a passenger car or car ferry, or in an endangered station. In fact, that would be great for our rolling stock, station, and boat fans, who think us "steam freaks" are a bit daft.

C. It is filled by a "steam lizard".

If people are charged admission to use the steam bath, thereby raising funds for restoration projects, that would be a plus. If it is "down south", and includes that good southern cooking and Charlie Daniels playing in the background, what are you waiting for; type away!

Of course, it will just be a matter of time before "Wash Out" (oh, no, a double entande) finds out and starts filming it from his fleet of helicopters, ruining it for everyone.

Did I forget anybody?

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a


Surviving World Steam Locomotives
james1@pernet.net

Before my house burned down (many years ago) I had a book of the worst ideas ever conceived of. The steam powered submarines, complete with theoretically waterproof retractable smokestacks, were featured prominently.

Not in the book Worst Ideas Book, but in Iron Horses of the Santa Fe, there is discussion of articulated locmotives with articulated (I kid you not, they apparently had some sort of metal flex joint in the middle) BOILERS! Another short lived phenom.

> Don't forget about the steam powered K-boat
> submarines of the British navy during WWI.
> Besides the steam turbine electric these
> boats had the typical storage batteries and
> an oil engine connected to a generator!

> Really.

> Brian Norden


Preserved Buses
hkading@rypn.org

Yes you Did!
I would be no trick to install a steam bath in our interurban car! When we get to the point that we are rebuilding the hot water heater it would be easy to install a hot tub in what was the "smoker", since nobody "smokes" any more. It will be fun trying to figger out how to keep the water from sloshing.

PS: It's April 4th



lamontdc@adelphia.net

> Not in the book Worst Ideas Book, but in
> Iron Horses of the Santa Fe, there is
> discussion of articulated locmotives with
> articulated (I kid you not, they apparently
> had some sort of metal flex joint in the
> middle) BOILERS! Another short lived phenom.

http://www.railroadextra.com/blwmal00.Html

go down to about the 9th paragraph, at one time this site had a drawing, but for some reason they won't come up on my computer

btrue@vt.edu

Don't get Hume going about steam baths!

> Is it too late to suggest spicing things up
> by covering steam baths?


denmeg_hogan@msn.com

In early Amtrak days we went to Pittsburgh on the legendary AMTK 31 on a snowy day. We stopped somewhere on the Middle Division (Penn Central was still around) and I have a shot of the entire train wrapped in steam from all the leaks.

THERE'S your steambath.

The Electric City Trolley Museum Association

> Don't get Hume going about steam baths!

We got a vidio from a group from Japan that runs a railroad called the Yuen and Raz. It was a kick! One of the sequences had the volunteers in small side dump cars filled with water, heated with steam, a beer in hand and a towel on their head, being pulled by a tiny locomotive called the "Muff Potter".

ironbartom@aol.com

> We got a vidio from a group from Japan that
> runs a railroad called the Yuen and Raz. It
> was a kick! One of the sequences had the
> volunteers in small side dump cars filled
> with water, heated with steam, a beer in
> hand and a towel on their head, being pulled
> by a tiny locomotive called the "Muff
> Potter".

Wasn't that the last Christmas party at Roaring Camp?

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net