Steam Powered Machine list...

[P. Aloysius Regnad]

    I'm trying to think up a list of steam powered machines that people find interesting, impressive, or fun, to see.   There's a reason, but telling it might be a spoiler.   Anyway, so far I have:

  Steam locomotive

  Steam tractor (traction engine)

  Steam roller (road roller)

  Steam shovel

  Steamboat (stern wheeler)

  Steamboat (side wheeler)

  Fire engine

  Donkey engine

  Large stationary engine (industrial, public works/utilities)

  "Utility engine" (wagon, or sledge mounted)

    And two more that I believe exist almost exclusively in the UK:

  Steam lorry/Steam wagon

  Showman's engine

    It looks like most of these could be considered vehicles (even the donkey engine can pull itself along), but that's not a requirement.  (I find a steam powered stamp mill impressive, but I don't know if there are any left in operating condition.   Also, in addition to the horse drawn type, there were a few self propelled fire engines, but I'm going to lump them together, unless there is a major public outcry.   Heh.)   I'd like to hear any suggestions for something I've left out.

[P. Aloysius Regnad]

    I've updated the list.   The editor is still funky, but I've improved the formatting by inserting some html code.

[Captain]

There was a whole group of steam powered grain mill collector/restorers who used to show up to Trade Days in the tiny town of Trade, TN.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PFekmL_Lh4

Steam calliopes like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVfqvcw8lrI  and on many riverboats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEDNXNEmLj4

[P. Aloysius Regnad]

    A grain mill.   So that's what one of those is called.   I got a free bag of corn meal ground up by one once at an antique machine show.   It made good corn muffins.

[Captain]

I picked up a quantity of buckwheat at Trade Days.  Much better than most store bought buckwheat which feels like eating sand. 

[Captain]

The steam powered K Class Submarine  aka "Kalamity Class" British submarine.

Apparently the reason for a steam powered submarine was that it was the only power source in 1913 that would allow a submarine to keep up with the fleet.  Oddly, it did not have a conventional fuel tank.  The open bottomed tank just counted on the fuel oil being lighter than water.  Otherwise, anything that could go wrong did to this unlucky class of submarine. 

[P. Aloysius Regnad]

      Wow!  These sound like something Gerry Anderson would be proud of!  Retracting funnels!  Still a bit slower than Stringray, though.   Heh.

[The Specialist]

steam planes. The Besler steamplane (A travelair 2000 converted from a Curtiss OX powerplant) It had an estimated range of 400 miles on a full tank of fuel, although operating at altitude was intended to increase range due to the lower boiling point of steam. granted its not exactly Victorian, but it is steampowered

[Captain]

Early Tank Concepts

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