Lea Bailey Light Railway Running on Air Part 1, May 2015
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- For the visit of the Narrow Gauge Railway Society on 10th May 2015, the theme was running on compressed air. First, visitor 'Issing Sid' is seen in action and then our own Eimco Rocker Shovel which can now move itself.
For the second part from May 2017 please visit • The Whistling Pig and ... . It includes Sid's return, our new Eimco 'The Whistling Pig' and the rocker shovel excavating.
It's the overalls and bow tie that make me think .
"this guy... This guys definitely a train guy, a dapper train guy"
I would love to see one of those in action. Since I was a child, I always found small rail systems to be very interesting, especially in such lovely scenery, as this one. Great video!
I've got a couple of grandsons that would love to go to a rail yard like this, I wish there was one close by!
BEAUTIFUL SIMPLICITY. And at 110 psi, as safe as houses too.
Great to see one of those scoops running. Seen them at numerous museums but never brought to life.
I found a railway very similar to this in the abandoned town of Bankhead! Close to Banff, Alberta Canada
If there's any abandoned locomotives they could be of interest to preservation groups.
@@Bearthedancingman there is an engine or two but they were small mining machines. Powered by compressed air.
I really like that little shovel! Interesting machine.
That locomotive is so cute i want it
It's on display at the statfold barn railway I believe.
I want to go there
One thing to add that would extend the range of the loco would be a "tender". Basically a second tank on wheels. Porter used to make air locomotive in the US and some models had such tenders.
Ar maybe a compressor driven by an electric motor supplid by a generator driven by a dieselmotor. You could have the very first diesel electric pneumatic drivetrain.
What a fascinating film. Thanks for sharing.
Surprising how powerful these little compressed air locos are.
I've never before seen a guy do nothing with such a sense of urgency.
Well, you little Mucker! Looks like fun. That is the machine with the shovel, used at the face of mines, called a mucker. All the sounds of steam without the fire and soot! This stuff works well in mines of course because the exhaust is clean air. And, no boilers, so no boiler explosions. Just air tanks.
it's old but someday this could become the revamp of modern trains
real eye opener, fantastic vid, thax for sharing, keep'em coming please.
'ISSIN SID' based on The Durham Ironworks 'IRON PONY PUTTER ' designed by Lishman and Young c1879
Durham Ironworks built three types of air locomotive which were produced for around 20 Years or so They not surprisingly found favour in the Durham Coalfield with The Earl of Durham 's Collieries using them quite extensively.
Also they were exported to The Empire Gold Mine at Grass Valley Califonia.
Air locomotives did not find long term use in the UK and very few were used after 1900.
However they were very popular in North America and Europe.
In the USA Baldwin built 80 between 1874 & 1923. Dickson/ALSO built 25 between 1897 & 1903.
H.K.PORTER built some 480 between 1890 & 1931.
Vulcan Ironworks built 22 between 1904 & 1912.
Due to the heavy riveted air tanks that most American air locomotives from these builders were equipped with they gained the nickname "Wart Hogs" This type of locomotive was charged to between 40 & 80 bar.
From the 1920's onwards a simple type of low pressure air locomotive (7-10 bar) was developed by Ed Fry in Cripple Creek Colorado this type of locomotive was designed to work in the small metal mines found in that area of the Rockies. The early machines used disgraced Steam Car engines and eventually they used air winch (Slushers) motors. The Ed Fry design was known as The Tramaire He built them himself in Cripple Creek and later in Canyon City and The Universal Dredge Co also built them in Denver up to the early 1970's The most common model being the Universal Tramaire Special.
EIMCO in Salt Lake City also built a similar machine the Type 401 locomotive again it would appear that they were built up to the early 1970's these locomotives were nicknamed "Whistle Pigs"
In Europe the deep mined coal industry became very interested in air locomotives from the 1890's onwards the main builders in Germany being BMAG, BORSIG, DEMAG and JUNG The first three built mainly multiple expansion machines and by the eve of WW I some very complex designs had appeared particularly from BMAG and DEMAG. JUNG did not enter the market until the 1920's They designed single expansion machines driving an air motor which in turn drove via a gearbox and chains. This proved to be the most successful design and the last locomotives to be built by JUNG in 1987 were six Pz45 machines for Poland The design was copied in Czechoslovakia by TSM who built 430 BVD -40 locomotives between 1964 & 1974 and finally after JUNG ceased KONSTAL at Chorzow in Poland built a number of locomotives between 1989 & 1992 It would appear that they are the most recent air locomotives to be built.
There were a number of French builders including Dejardin, Fives-Lille and Renault built substantial numbers of air locomotives also there were Austrian, Belgian, Czech and Dutch builders.
Air locomotives were also built in Japan and The USSR.
The invention of the Seamless or Mannessman Tube allowed high pressures to be utilised and these locomotives were charged to between 175 & 250 bar!
A curious design that is still in production in Ukraine is The Gyroz which is a Gyro - Pneumatic Locomotive. An air motor drives a flywheel up to 3000 rpm which the drives the locomotive via a two -speed mechanical transmission which gives a range of around 2km.
Thanks, very informative!
Wow I didn't know air locomotives were built so recently.
Nicholas Kelly
Nice to see the old and gold technology
If it works, and the infrastructure is still in place, why mess with it? Particularly, up until at *least* the 70s, battery technology simply wasn't good enough to be worth the cost of a wholescale changeover in the places these were used.
Nicholas Kelly
Tank car but with rods and controls…love it
Aye the Diesel Generator that is being used for it. Hahahaha Excellent. A load of hot gas.
An unfortunate necessity to demonstrate the principle. In reality such an engine would have been used where a source of compressed air would have been needed for other purposes, eg for drilling inside a mine.
There are several locomotives runs with compressed air in Japan!
JNR 9600 49671: ruclips.net/video/quzGMTlpoQg/видео.html
JNR D51 146: ruclips.net/video/KRBry57GV8w/видео.html
JNR D51 827: ruclips.net/video/-okh6fV0T8o/видео.html
JNR D52 70: ruclips.net/video/3Iem-KRck7g/видео.html
JNR C12 167: ruclips.net/video/zYBbiKt4gqw/видео.html
the steam loco is the smallest I ever seen, where did you find it?
It's not a steam loco, it just looks a bit like one. It runs on compressed air and is "a replica of the compressed air locomotives built by the Grange Iron Works in Durham" although I am not sure how accurate it is. The 'steam' effect is serendipitous from the cooling of the air as it expands rapidly. (The opposite of a bike pump getting warm when pumping up a tyre.)
It was realy fun to see tose in action, i hawe always been curious about the black one since i was a kid and saw a similar one on a picture.
Really cool hobby there boys! Love the lite rr but aren't you wary of explosions?
Well that’s why it’s an air locomotive and not a steam one, no risk of sparks
Kewl! I want one!
It's an unusual sight to see these things operate once in a while, but worth it!
3:19 besides, this is quite an amusing looking machine, although it looks a little dangerous to operate.
As the properly dressed man explained to camera... it's supposed to have a guardrail to stop you losing an arm, but that's gone missing... :-o ... hence he only operates the levers from ground level and standing far enough back that he has to pull them at full stretch!
Hopefully a lot of more years of playing around without accidents and injuries!!
I'd love to have that little black engine, all the joys of a steam engine but all you need to run 'er is a good air compressor and a little push to set the eccentrics in the direction you want to go. Insofar as the actual engine goes, it IS a steam engine, admittedly not that different than a little model steam engine (many of those have the same so-called "slip eccentrics" where you have to give 'em a push in the direction you want to go before opening the regulator), it's just you're using a big air tank and compressed air instead of a boiler and steam.
Betcha it'd be fun as hell to drive, the only problem I foresee is running out of air on the opposite end of the line from where the compressor would be.
Heck, just add a reversing valve / second set of eccentrics, and you can drive it both ways without needing the push-off... I suppose that's why the couplings are a bit slack with these ones, so you can give it that kick without having to move the entire train yourself, which might be a bit more of an ask if there's a half dozen fully loaded coal wagons behind it vs either unladen or just one empty flatbed.
At 110 psi you could probably limp by with a bike pump lol, most go up to 100 psi
What gauge is this? i mean there more then one track gauge for narowgauge. This doesntl look like 3 foot which is what im familar with in America.
Two foot (610mm) which is not unknown in the USA but is probably the most common in Europe, together with variants of two foot six inches (762mm, often 750mm in Eastern Europe and Russia). There are local variations as ever of course.
Thank you. I know theres other narrow gauges in america Im just more familar with Californian 3ft logging railroads. I've wanted to go out to maine where im pretty sure a few are 2ft but even even after moving to wisconsin which is several thousand miles closer I still don't have the money.
This equipment was designed for and operated and still operates in mines and tunnels. Many mines used a track gauge of 18 inches or 24 inches and rail of 8, 10 12, 16, or 20 lb rail because of size. In a mine it is not economical to dig much outside of the ore vein. The width to allow passage of the equipment is all that is needed. The larger or richer the ore body then larger equipment is justified for handling the ore. In a museum mine our 8 year old grandson and a girl of about his size and age was able to move a loaded 1 cu. yd. mine car of about 1 ton on 18 in. gauge track without much trouble.
these machine runs with air pressurea aprox 150psi,,or more(10kg/cm2)
I wish we had this kind of passion over hear in the States in the North East. I enjoy seeing this stuff as well as my kids.
It even comes with a vintage vanity plate
Very interesting.
One question that does not appear to be answered by the railway;s website, what gauge is it? 2' or 18" perhaps?
It's nominally 2 foot gauge, probably a little more on that tight curve!
@@internationalsteam Thank you for that.
We;ve got Steeple Grange up here near Wirksworth.
is there anyone can still build these ? would be ideal for the mine where i work
Great, where did the compressed air loco come from?
+Kevin Staddon I believe it was put together relatively recently using a variety of spare parts - what they call a 'bitzer'. However it was loosely based on a real prototype.
Rob, Cheers. I knew such things existed although seemed to be more popular in USA than UK
I wonder if its possible to charge it by runnung it down a hill? although I'd imagine that impossible without a johnson bar
A kind of regenerative braking?
@@internationalsteam as in, if you were to throw a johnson bar in reverse some steam engines' cylinders would take on gulps of air and compress it back into the boiler. only some though.
Fireless?
Similar principle but compressed air. Ideal in underground areas where a flame would be dangerous.
i want to know the engines class
As I understand, it was a freelance design...
The air turbine on that shovel sounds like an accelerating diesel engine.
That looks like something from 1815 with the rivetted air tank.
It's probably mid-late 19th century. The tank would have been made the same way as contemporary steam boilers. In fact, wouldn't be too surprised to find that the design was modified from a regular narrowgauge loco, just changed to hold a charge of compressed air from an external source rather than producing its own high pressure steam using water and fire. It wouldn't have taken very long for mine owners to find that live steam locos weren't a very good idea underground, but that being able to use locomotive engines of various kinds was still a much more practical idea than a stationary engine with cables running all around. The range doesn't *need* to be much, after all, just enough to get in, do a few minutes' work, and run back out of the mine again, at which point it can be recharged for the next run.
How far this little loco can go?
Just a few hundred metres on a full charge of compressed air.
I like to imagine his number plate's resemblance to a certain rude word is intentional, and he just waits for people to notice.
Narrow Gauge Railway Society perfectly innocent and respectable.
i know what your thinking and trust me its not that
The clue is in the video description Narrow...Gauge...Railway...Society
可愛的小型充氣火車頭！
4:10 Keep the air compressor in tow behind the loco. You'll have a continuous source of power.
fascinating...never seen one of those !
That engine could save to world
They should have built it to look like a steam locomotive
Why would they make it look like a steam engine when it's an industrial air compression loco
Even though it is an old technology,it does not harms the environment
Really ? and how do you think it is charged ? by a diesel compressor running for who knows how long converting energy form one form to another always has LOSS
Then how do I pump my big compressor tank with an electric air pump,and alcohol we don't have to constantly make a diesel compressor to run
0:59 Brudne łapy, brudne portki, ale pod szyją muszka do zdjęcia MUSI BYĆ. 😃
How long distance can be traveled this way if it was filled?
Not very far even without a load! Certainly less than 500 metres with the limited pressure it was operating at. It's 'sort of' a replica of a real machine.
this is best electric car....using tanks instead of lead batteries....this is future
I see a rocker shovel there
Really like the plate on the front of it lmao
Hello from 2022
I love engines it is best with horn
It’s walnut from taleland railway
Don’t say the acronym on the front too quick.
Narrow Gauge Railway Society indeed. I fear that if they were to be founded today they would have maybe have been told to think again about their choice of name.
Why not hv pneumatic bike & car-no need lithium, cobalt
There is no such thing as 'free energy', you have to compress the air to use it in this loco. In practice, one of these was used only where there was a high fire risk as in a coal mine.
I want one.
Да это пароблок! Класс!
Does anyone know where i could make working locomotives like steam or even air like this?
Thats macnut from thailand railway
這是什麼挖歌
Where is this, exactly?
51°52'25.1"N 2°31'04.6"W
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Bailey_Light_Railway
amazing
smol train
Wow...nice
Mucker, it is!
Noice
Seems to be a very dangerous machine to operate.
How so?
This looks like an internal piston desighn
Interesting, but why do some railway enthusiasts act so 'Geeky' ?
If they weren't geeks, they wouldn't be railfans ;-)
I WANT ONE
now if only someone would invent a way to compress air by a wind/watermill you'd really have something ! Someone like Girard & Son in 1775/1799 of N.J. ???
Invent? It's surely already been done.
If not, well, you just need to connect the crank of the compressor to that of the mill. Probably a rather large mill via a large-ratio gearing-up mechanism however, most compressors need a fair amount of input power to charge a tank in a reasonable amount of time, and each "puff" of their own piston doesn't put *that* much more air in.
Or just connect an electrical generator to an electric compressor, and accept that, as a historical demonstrator system, you're not going to get anything resembling decent energy efficiency (it would, after all, be far better for *practical* use to electrify the system and use that generated power directly in the traction motors of a small NG electric loco instead)... worth it to not have to co-site the compressor with the mill, wherever it is.
(if practical electricity generation and distribution had been developed at the start of the industrial revolution, rather than the end, the industrial landscapes produced would have been far different to what we see today... no need to put the big cotton mills next to fast flowing rivers, and arrange for transport networks to meet there and the building of workers' homes to service them right alongside, for example... in fact no need for big buildings, designed to share the power of a single waterwheel or set of sails as efficiently and compactly as possible, the energy could have been distributed amongst a thousand separate cottages with their own resident spinners...)
The engines.... *AAWWWWW*
Interesting.
Sound like a tractor powered by single cylinder diesel engine.
Year 2023 rehash for sales of grease-tanker tank on 2 sets of small-excavator tracks for hill-climb looking like submarine being transported. Center rotation for weight-friction grip levels and pitch up-down too too too. Probably will be steam engine types. Toooooooo
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Что они вообще делают?... А-а-а, это высокотехнологичная показуха для туристов! Точно! :)
that is the reason why kid love to do that ^^
COOL! But looks like work. Lol!
Full size with slip eccentric!
C'est le gazogene à essence de gaston Lagaf !!!??? Ah ! Ah ! Ah !
Ou c'est comme les mecs qui rechargent les batteries d'une Tesla avec un groupe électrogène : encore une fois : Ah ! Ah ! Ah !
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM,
NGRS.
What’s this acronym?
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