What do medieval church buildings and railway steam engines have in common. The answer, using modern parlance is “You get what you see”
Here, no matter where you look, the columns, tracery, arches, and externally the buttresses and pinnacles are all in stone in compression in all its glory doing its job in stabalizing the structure for all to see. No hidden steelwork or reinforced concrete here.
Similarly, the works of the steam engine is exposed to be seen. No hidden crankshaft, pistons, connecting rods and the like.
Normally steam engines have four buffers, one at each corner, but this one has a fifth buffer on the footplate. Have you seen the driver’s headgear!.
Finally, this one’s for Ian.
Hope you’ll all forgive my ramblings. Thanks FSS for the now downloaded software making blog postings with pictures much easier.
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