1881 Westinghouse Traction Engine - First Run in 20 Years
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2017
- Here's a look at another recent accomplishment here at Schurman's Iron Ranch. We recently convinced Alan to restart work on his 1881 Westinghouse Traction Engine. It is serial number #391 and it is the earliest known Westinghouse Traction Engine. This video is from our annual steam powered playday where we managed to get this engine running again for the first time in over 20 years. It took some messing with the timing before we got it turning. It's still missing several major components but we were able to rebuild enough of it in time to turn the engine over under steam. We intend to have the engine largely done by next year and moving under it's own power.
If it wasn't for you men this would be a lost art too. Thanks for hanging in there and please pass it on. Thank you guys.
You guys are so very cool with folks that almost know as much as you. Awesome work, maybe even more awesome
I just found your video. What a great engine to own. My father (born 1891) told of owning a Westinghouse in Bradford County, PA when he was a teenager and the engine was very old then. Like yours, it had no steering gear, horses were used to steer. He added steering and bolted lugs over the worn off cast lugs on the wheels. A friend acquired a similarly old wooden thresher and they toured the farms threshing, filling silos and buzzing wood for hire with it. I know of only two Westinghouse traction engines in the East and are later models.....Dave Richards
This makes three operating Westinghouse engines in the PNW. The other two are in Oregon, one at Antique Powerland, Brooks, the other at Collier State Park, Chiloquin.
Love these old flywheelers! Dunno jack about 'em, but they sure are fun to watch!
it's good that some one knows how thet work. we might have to use them again.
Very nice machine & videos
this is a exceptional job and it s a 10 out of 12 bob in the uk
What a smooth, pleasant sound.
Wow, pretty cool! ❤️👌👌😎
👍👍very cool machine
shes loverly.
Westinghouse engines were about the 1st. to make us of the new-fanged V-belt to transmit power, the early Cutiss motorcycles used them ,also. Both forward thinkers, ahead their peers!
Wow, this is one of westinghouse first products that he started as a kid when he prefered his dads workshop over being at school, he designed this and built it before he made a big impact with his westinghouse air brakes that revolutionised the rail industry, he went on from there to become one of Americas greatest inventive and also kindest entrepreneurs, he set an example of what business should be about, until the vampire bankers moved in that is. God bless Westinghouse and all that follow his example...
1881? Unglaublich, echt gutes produkt... ! lg.ff
Very nice. My grandpa owned a Westinghouse like that one. He ran it at Midwest Old Threasures for a while
Thats an interesting boiler. It almost looks like a Merryweather boiler with the flanges on the barrel. Where is this engine now?
This engine is 1881??? Incredible
Remember the day when fixing a car required a screwdriver and hammer?
So, IF your dating is right, Jessie James, Billy the kid, Pat Garrett, The Earps and Clantons , Belle Starr, and Calamity Jane amongst others could have seen this engine, or one like it trundling around