From the wonderful and amazing photoshopping colorization artist Patty Allison https://www.facebook.com/imbuedwithhues and http://www.imbuedwithhues.com/

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Engine, Mount Washington Railway, White Mountains, New Hampshire</div>

From the wonderful and amazing photoshopping colorization artist Patty Allison https://www.facebook.com/imbuedwithhues and http://www.imbuedwithhues.com/

East Side peddler, New York, 1915.mn Famous photo of Link's works about the last of the steam locomotives in the early 1950's on the...

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an artist of yarn, Olek, yarnbombed a locomotive

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an artist of yarn, Olek, yarnbombed a locomotive

Photos from  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/olek/the-train-that-stands-sti_b_3744900.html  and   http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/o...

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Unusual locomotive design

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Unusual locomotive design

A rare picture of the second Fontaine, shown here arriving at St Thomas, Ontario, Canada, in July 1881, for trails on the Canada Southern Ra...

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Wow... amazing collection of steam locomotives on ?parade? and exhibition run? Thanks to Marcin in Poland for all the links and photos!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="fb-root"></div><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script><br /><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=684024261652046" data-width="466"><div class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=684024261652046">Post</a> by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JOSELETE1959">Joselete Dorado López</a>.</div></div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguMAHtt-tGCdm_rJHTa5Z_-xGi9xlq1RPAI1kWcHqUhrhAVsDHcFBw6EGhcw15yfR8eCH3M4mGOsUs7V6lQT4RoouF5ZH-RFElIaPjTEbdWnDQJ56vBMcumLzYh82ukbB5vbEjt-bh4dGT/s1600/werwh.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguMAHtt-tGCdm_rJHTa5Z_-xGi9xlq1RPAI1kWcHqUhrhAVsDHcFBw6EGhcw15yfR8eCH3M4mGOsUs7V6lQT4RoouF5ZH-RFElIaPjTEbdWnDQJ56vBMcumLzYh82ukbB5vbEjt-bh4dGT/s1600/werwh.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />Picture found on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/voglerjm?fref=ufi">https://www.facebook.com/voglerjm?fref=ufi</a><br /><br />Marcin emailed me:</div>Sorry do not speak fluent English, so I use the google translator. always with great interest I follow your blog. Here you can find more about these parades<br /><br /><a href="http://www.parowozy.pl/skansen/">http://www.parowozy.pl/skansen/</a><br />and<br /><a href="http://www.dniwolsztyna.wolsztyn24.pl/parada_parowozow_48.html">http://www.dniwolsztyna.wolsztyn24.pl/parada_parowozow_48.html</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyY94CIwgeQRIjzwarWL2qGCHM8tBof4yj0Cnt36fWFVcRo-xQ6sqGGmmxqjpWRM_R2sbWm0NrzaxJZcyTQAreRD2ZX5nRKvfznh2y_euOiSmrXC8me9OKNUypV6uQM6AKiG4hxT0tw_SN/s1600/1a1a1a1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyY94CIwgeQRIjzwarWL2qGCHM8tBof4yj0Cnt36fWFVcRo-xQ6sqGGmmxqjpWRM_R2sbWm0NrzaxJZcyTQAreRD2ZX5nRKvfznh2y_euOiSmrXC8me9OKNUypV6uQM6AKiG4hxT0tw_SN/s1600/1a1a1a1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDto3ejO3IOKiPnJt90dkcdrBLnYBmZ3RYD2axiKN5X3weLP2VRKMN7r4Bcf4KDnVW5b2zwGpMMwNXfvjyeQb0lST0Md_cH8FJHURhWQ-yjGKHDDPAN4r2vQPP3uZs51YrKCU5JF1DZevp/s1600/1a1a11aa1a1a1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Wow... amazing collection of steam locomotives on ?parade? and exhibition run? Thanks to Marcin in Poland for all the links and photos!

Post by Joselete Dorado López . Picture found on  https://www.facebook.com/voglerjm?fref=ufi Marcin emailed me: Sorry do not speak fluent E...

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The Shay drive design of gear driven steam locomotive

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The Shay drive design of gear driven steam locomotive

images from  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay_locomotive thanks to Jeff! Before yesterday, I did not even know there were other types of s...

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the V twin gear driven Heisler design steam locomotive

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the V twin gear driven Heisler design steam locomotive

Images found on  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisler_locomotive  thanks to Jeff!

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intriguing drive system on this worn out 56 yr old still operating locomotive engine

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intriguing drive system on this worn out 56 yr old still operating locomotive engine

Found on  http://themanlyblog.tumblr.com/ via  http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=475808&nseq=189 For a clearer photo of a re...

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