Master pieces

Locomotive Crampton
  • Crampton locomotive (circa 1850).
  • Coal combustion
  • Actual size with tender : about 1,50 m,
    weight 150 Kg, gauge 7"1/4 (184 mm)
(actually building)
Front right section
Center front section of the chamber
Cabine of the steam engine
 
Locomobile Merlin
  • Merlin portable engine - Scale 1/10 -
  • Lengh 60 cm - Height 60 cm with chimney
  • Coal combustion
  • It was used to drive a threshing machine or a saw

Detail

 
Machine à vapeur Corliss
  • Corliss steam engine with a "sword blade".
  • It was used to drive a dynamo
  • Size about 60 cm x 40 cm
  • The flywheel is the only part to be cast, all the other parts of this engine are carved in the block
Gold medal, International models exhibition,, Paris 1985
 
Locomotive Bourbonnais PLM
  • 030 PLM Boubonnais locomotive (circa 1860)
  • Lengh 100 cm - Gauge 5" (127 mm)
  • Coal combustion
  • Can pull 10 people (700 kg)
  • This locomotive pulled freight trains on the PLM railway

Details ----- An other model

 
Machine à vapeur fixe
  • Stationary steam engine (circa 1880)
  • Height about 30cm
  • This engine was used to pump water or to drive a workshop

 

 
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