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Snowed in - Jasper Alberta Canada by Adrian Paul

This old steam engine, standing at Jasper Railway Station high in the Canadian Rockies, serves as a reminder of the days when steam ruled the Canadian Railways. The temperature – about minus 20 degrees! (Feb 1999) 605 Views – Nov 7 2009 FEATURED IN POWERED BY STEAM FEATURED IN CANADIAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS Greeting Card /
Sir Nigel Gresley by TallGuy

This was a lucky encounter.. I was on the North York Moors National Park above Grosmont when I spotted Sir Nigel Gresley leaving the village… A dash across the moors and I was just outside Goathland.. out of the car and in position just in time to catch the steam engine. Looking now, maybe the wide angle lens wasn’t the best choice, I would have liked the old grand steam loco closer, but the setting is almost perfect.. Taken with a Canon 5D. The Autumn Steam Gala on the North York Moors starts tomorrow ( 2 Oct ) if anyone is interested..
Just Leaving by Trevor Kersley

Grosmont is situated in the North Yorks Moors National Park, the steam trains are run by the North Yorks Moors Railway and run from Pickering to Whitby. Pentax K10D 18-55mm lens / 1/90 @ f8.0 ISO 400 RAW June 2009
1963: 'Codrington' by Nigel Kendall

A Stanier ‘Jubilee’ leaves March Depot in East Anglia to take up its next duty. In the left background can be seen the huge coaling plant.
Riverboat. by wayne51

The restored murray River Paddle steamer “Hero” moored on the Murray River at Echuca. This paddle wheeler was built in 1976 and traversed the river picking up wool and dropping of supplies to homesteads along the river in the bygone era. This is the second oldest one still operating in the world. Several of them have been restored and work out of the port of Echuca cruising the Murray river with tourist trade. Functions, parties and weddings can be held on these boats. “EmmyLou” is powered by a 16hp steam engine that uses 250 litres of water per hour and 1 tonne of wood per day. Canon 5D, 24-105 mm IS lense, 100ISO, 1/125th sec, polarising filter and tripod. Featured in “Powered by Steam Group” September 2009 / Featured in “Canon DSLR Group” September 2009
The Sherwood Forester by Hertsman

The loco so named after the British Army Regiment (a shortened version anyway) is seen at speed passing Garsdale heading South hauling ‘The Fellsman’ a special train over the Settle and Carlisle line to and from Lancaster and Carlisle.
GWR King class 4.6.0 on Dainton bank. by Mike Jeffries

The King class steam locomotives introduced in 1927 by the Great Western Railway for their heaviest express passenger trains were, in terms of tractive effort, the most powerful engines in Great Britain and it was here on the South Devon banks that that very measure of a steam locomotive’s power was needed. The thirty strong class did everything expected of them and gave sterling service for over thirty years and here a King digs its heels in on the climb to Dainton summit with an express for Plymouth. An oil painting like this of your favourite locomotive, British or American, on a 20”x30” canvas would cost £1000 on average, worth thinking about? Go to my web-site www.transportartist.co.uk for my contact details to commission your painting and own a piece of art that can only increase in value over the years.
Steam by Catherine Veal

This is Buckfastleigh Station in Devon, UK. A wonderful day out. You can see the hills of Dartmoor in the background. / Edited from RAW in Dynamic Photo HDR FREE DOWNLOAD1 shot X 3 then into CS3 and finished off in Picasa3 FREE DOWNLOAD / Camera used Pentax K200D. / Thank you for looking. / BEST VIEWED LARGER
Jubilee 4-6-0 at Liverpool, Lime Street by Mike Jeffries

Ex-LMS Jubilee 4-6-0 45670 “Earl of Effingham” waits impatiently at Liverpool, Lime Street station with an express for London, Euston sometime in the late 1950s. Ahead of the crew is an arduous climb through the tunnels and cuttings of the main line out of Liverpool but their steed is one of Stanier’s masterpieces of locomotive design and well up to the job. I remember the graceful Jubilees well but only ever fired one once in my railway career and that was on a Bradford-Bournemouth express from Birmingham New Street to Bristol Temple Meads back in 1957 and we hit 90mph though Ashchurch-—- happy days indeed! / / The stored computer image of this painting is not of a high enough resolution to be reproduced as a print for sale but the image is shown here merely as an example of my work. The original painting was done about six years ago on a canvas 48”x36” in acrylic and cost the client £1500, nowadays I would paint this in oils. Commissions? E-mail mike@transportartist.co.uk for details
1967: Men of steam by Nigel Kendall

Bournemouth Fireman Ronald Whittaker chats to the relieving driver of a Waterloo-bound express. Steam power was to finish just 4 months later.
'Leander' by Steve Liptrot

The Fellsman leaving Blackburn, Lancashire with LMS Jubilee Class 4-6-0 no 45690 Leander on its way to Carlisle via The Setlle-Carlisle line. Nikon D80 – Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens – polarisor Featured in the Powered by Steam group AUG 2009. / Featured in the Black and White Photography group AUG 2009.
Merchant Navy pacific at Brookwood by Mike Jeffries

Speeding through Brookwood on the Southern’s West of England main line rebuilt Merchant Navy 4.6.2 No 35022 “Holland America Line” is at the head of a Waterloo -Bournemouth express. The thirty strong Merchant Navy class was introduced during the Second World War on the Southern Railway by O V S Bullied and originally carried an overall air smoothed casing with chain driven valve gear, which earned them the nickname “Spamcans” by footplatemen unimpressed by these innovations. Due to various problems it was decided to rebuild the entire class to the handsome form seen here in the 1950s, doing away with the air-smoothed casing, fitting coventional Walschaerts valve gear, relocating the lubricators and fitting efficent smoke deflectors and in this form they lasted to the end of steam on the Southern Region in 1967. An oil painting like this of your favourite locomotive, British or American, on a 20”x30” canvas would cost £1000 on average, worth thinking about? Go to my web-site www.transportartist.co.uk for my contact details to commission your painting and own a piece of art that can only increase in value over the years.

Recent Work

Steam locomotive of CFL by trainmaniac

The national railway row 42 (also as the second war railroad engine called) originated from the consideration that the application of the class 52 with her 15 Mp axle load on numerous would be too uneconomical for Mp 17-18 axle load to developed distances. The German imperial traffic ministry required the development of a heavier and more efficient war railroad engine in January, 1942. After protracted preliminary works one decided on one of the row 52 similar, substantially simplistic, nevertheless heavier design. One renounced the different constructive simplifications which hadn’t proved themselves with the class 52. The buying of twenty CFL locomotives in Austria caused some whirl in Luxembourg. In October, 1948 the general manager of the CFL went to Vienna to check the machines and to negotiate about the purchase price. The whole matter ran then quite clouded in secrecy. To attain clarification about the railroad engines standing in a queue for the sales, the land association of the Luxembourgian railway employees turned in October, 1948 to the colleagues of the Austrian association of labour unions. The Luxembourgian trade union feared because that wanted to acquire the CFL old, put down machines. /
Nearly Ready by Edward Denyer

Steam engine 30926 Schools Class “Repton” almost ready for the start of the day. Seen on the water tower at Pickering Station, North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Camera: Olympus SP-570UZ
CNR Steam Engine by Gary Paakkonen

A CNR Steam Engine on display in Palmerston, Ontario, Canada 50% of all profits will go to The Canadian Cancer Society www.cancer.ca Please support The ART for Cancer Group
EMMYLOU by Fiona Kersey

the EMMYLOU is a paddlesteamer that operates on the Murray river out of Echuca north west of Melbourne in Victoria. / The Historic Port in Echuca is over 130 years old, with only 1/5 of the original still there today. It has numerous Paddlesteamers that cruise up and down the Murrray River all day every day…they have the oldest operating paddlesteamer (Adelaide) in the whole world….yes, world :-) .....if u ever get the chance to visit this place I highly recommend it. / /
The Parade by Blurto

All shapes and sizes at the Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally. NIKON D700 / NIKKOR 24-70 f2.8 1/8000s @ F4 / 24MM / ISO 800 / ±0EV
Old Steam locomotive 1 by trainmaniac

Old Steam locomotive 1
Redfield Steam Train by Trevor Kersley

Redfield Fractalius
GWR Prairie Tank 5199 by Aggpup

Built in 1934, the ‘5101’ class of 2-6-2 large passenger tanks was an updated version (by C B Collett)of an earlier Churchward design dating back to 1903. / They were mainly used for semi-fast and suburban passenger trains. 5199 is seen here at Cheddleton on the Churnet Valley Railway in North Staffs.
Timbertown Steam Sawmilling & Logging Company by odarkeone

In Timbertown as it was in the 1880 / HDR using Photoshop cs4 & Photo Tool Pro / Pentax K200D