More Steam Oddities ( On A Smaller Scale)

Trains Magazine Steam & Preservation
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On the heels of the steam motorcycle…here’s another oddity…of a more contemporary form of steam inventiveness… an alcohol fueled live steam turbine on a garden railroad…can you imagine handling this after a run? Get out your asbestos gloves.and vodka…or not. Steam creativity is perhaps not a lost art…albeit on a smaller scale…On a related topic, I cant help but think that “shade tree” inventors as in the past, might be the ones that demonstrate an alternative form of motive power in the future rather than the “group think” of corporate goals…whether it’s Henry Ford or the Stanley brothers, Thomas Newcomen, Edison, …one can only hope…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua09-sHj3kE

Or if that’s not exotic enough…how about a butane powered steam turbine ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73CS1CLlHQY

Or one on a Lego chassis?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueoT-FVh09s&feature=related

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Thnaks, Wally for the links. As you say, home inventors have come up with practicable things–at much lower cost than that of the “think tanks.”

Would Lego be interested in providing the materials for the chassis of a full-scale model?

Johnny