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Union Station is a historic former railroad station located in downtown Palmer, Massachusetts.The building, which was designed by American architect H. H. Richardson, opened in June 1884 to consolidate two separate stations nearby. [1]
Constructed with oil-burning apparatus to speed the elite from the City of London to Cromer, West Runton & Sheringham [1] and capable of reaching North Walsham non-stop in just over two and a half hours. [2] They had 18-by-26-inch (457 mm × 660 mm) inside cylinders and 7-foot-0-inch (2.134 m) driving wheels. [3]
A tender or coal-car (US only) is a special rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing its fuel (wood, coal, oil or torrefied biomass) and water.Steam locomotives consume large quantities of water compared to the quantity of fuel, so their tenders are necessary to keep them running over long distances.
The GER Class G58 (LNER Class J17) is a class of 0-6-0 steam tender locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway in England. The class consisted partly of new locomotives built from 1905 to 1911 and partly of rebuilds of the earlier GER Class F48 built from 1900 to 1903.
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Palmer is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 12,448 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Palmer adopted a home rule charter in 2004 with a council-manager form of government. Palmer is one of thirteen Massachusetts municipalities that have city ...
Surfer Alo Slebir, 24, rode a gargantuan wave estimated to be 108 feet high “It’s the fastest I’ve ever traveled on a surfboard,” Slebir tells PEOPLE.
The engine drew steam from a coal-fired boiler, and had a pump valve mechanism which allowed its high-speed operation at a hydraulic head of 128 feet (39 m). The engine was designed by engineer Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr. , of Cambridge, Massachusetts , with a pump valve invented by Prof. Alois Riedler of the Technische Hochschule in Berlin ...