The making of a Locomotive, an incredible short film

[t-head]

I don't know how to upload a video here but this is a film made in the 1930s that you guys need to watch.

In the film you will be able to witness some extraordinary scenes showing the pouring of huge iron and steel castings.
Also featured is the art of forging alloy steel to produce the many high-strength parts needed in locomotive practice.

The photos below show a few scenes......See the film here.

After you watch leave a comment if you liked it. We are going to be posting more of them from time to time and you guys might enjoy them?

[Jim Brierley]

Very interesting!!!

[redmodelt]

Thank you for posting. Great video.

[t-head]

Glad you guys seem to be enjoying it. My favorite part is were they are forging hot steel.

[Kohnke Rebabbitting]

Very Good!!

[lance leblanc]

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Amazing. First thing I noticed was no eye protection, hard hats, heat shields or even gloves. Those where some tough men.

[Rusty Homestead Fl]

You got that right Lance. OSHA would S%#$ a brick if that went on today. That locomotive would never get built with todays rules. Of course most every one in that movie was probably blind in one eye and only had three fingers on each hand.
I loved the narrator's comment "who will say the day of the craftsman is no more". Guess they had the same thought back then. An incredible video. Thanks OLD MOTOR

[Richard Redmond]

Thank you for posting the video link.

I loved it all but my favourite bit is the 5 men sitting on a beam to counterbalance a plate as it's manoeuvred into a furnace ..... British engineering ingenuity at its finest !

In York city we have the National Railway Museum where these steel dinosaurs can be seen up close.

[gweilbaker]

"That locomotive would never get built with todays rules"

Sure it would, just not in this country!

[JtownJoe]

Very enjoyable Thanx, so much for posting it!!!!!

[Sparky]

Fascinating! I loved the scene of the group of workers acting as a human counterweight to place a piece in the furnace.

[deuce5wndw]

Enjoyed watching! Thanks for posting.

[Stan/MO.]

Very interesting!! Anybody with a ounce of mechanical interest,had to enjoy that.
Keep em' coming.
Thanks Old Motor

[Tom Wesenberg]

There is a nice 4-8-4 steam locomotive that is housed in the Twin Cities, #261.
If you google "FRIENDS of the 261" you should find somewhere on the site where you can buy the video of the Rebuilding of the 261. It's a great video and shows how they rebuilt it to put it back into service for rail fans to take trips.

[modeleh]

Absolutely awesome. I really enjoyed that, thanks very much.

[mass A man]

I really liked that. I think it's amazing that they needed to make all the tools and cranes first, before any part was cast or forged, or MOVED!.

[t-head]

Glad, you enjoyed it and thanks for stopping by, we will post more of the well done and interesting series in the future.

[bluesman31]

Loved it and subscribed

[cradlescyth]

Great viedo!!!

Many a locomotive was made right hear in Taunton Ma.

Before my time but this viedo shows how it was done.

Thanks

[roccaas]

"I had gone on a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green [of Glasgow] by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street—had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder. I then saw that I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection water if I used a jet, as in Newcomen's engine. Two ways of doing this occurred to me. First, the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an outlet could be got at the depth of 35 or 36 feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump. The second was to make the pump large enough to extract both water and air. ... I had not walked further than the Golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind."

[In Robert Hart's words, a recollection of the description of Watt's moment of inspiration, in May 1765, for improving Thomas Newcomen's steam engine.]
— James Watt