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Pretty cool......motor fired for the first time in 100 years....
What a 28.5-liter LSR engine sounds like firing up for the first time in 100 years

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Here's another 100 year old car......
85-year-old man restores century old Cadillac

And a 1928 film showing the building of a locomotive steam engine, 3,685 horsepower.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcbTXlMSCwk

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Richard, sometimes I feel like that 85-year-old with the Cadillac. We call them done, but they never are.

The locomotive construction was very interesting. They used the same tools we use today - but in a tad larger size. I loved the planishing hammer! Those builders were tough guys working in a really dangerous environment. Any OSHA inspector watching the film would have a heart attack.

I've had the opportunity to get on board a UP 'Big Boy' 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive (6,000 HP) and a UP DDA40X 'Centennial' diesel-electric (6,600HP). They are amazing machines.

One of my sons works for a company that makes ASME pressure vessels, and they have a roll press that handles sheet stock up to five inches thick, rolling it from flat to a cylinder to then be machine welded into a boiler drum. I'm not sure how old the roll press is, but I'm thinking it's pushing 100 years, if not more. It's amazing to see steel that thick being formed!

Originally Posted by Henry Rifle

I've had the opportunity to get on board a UP 'Big Boy' 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive (6,000 HP) and a UP DDA40X 'Centennial' diesel-electric (6,600HP). They are amazing machines.

Now I'm green with envy! I'd love to see'em up close and powered up. A short ride would be a dream!

Originally Posted by 34_40

Now I'm green with envy! I'd love to see'em up close and powered up. A short ride would be a dream!

To be clear, the ones I was on were static displays at Kenefick Park in Omaha. However, I did work in Omaha when the UP yards were active near the river on the east side of town. I saw many of the DDA40X units coming into the shop for repair while driving over the bridge on the way to the airport. They're impressive sitting still, but more impressive on the hoof, as it were.

I just looked up the definition of impressive.. both of those had a picture there! Certainly on my bucket list of things to see / do.

I've seen the Beast video before. Man talk about crazy, especially back then. The locomotive video is pretty cool too.