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See additional displays on the
World Triples Page
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Big Iron Museums – USA
2 Meg, PDF
A listing of Big Iron Museums in the
USA that provide public tours for either walk-in or
pre-scheduled tour guest.
Text Only version Here
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Made In Ohio – Steam Powered
Machinery Index
(With pictures)
9.7 Meg, PDF
A linked Index, alphabetical and by city, for
manufactures of steam engines and steam powered machinery made in Ohio.
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The AIA has money to give away - could your organization or
project benefit? The AIA has a number of award and grant schemes but we
need people to apply for them. Over £50,000 has been given out in
Restoration Grants in the past two years. Please see our
Awards Page
for details of all we can do.
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 Anson
Engine Museum
This unusual and fascinating museum used to
be one of the best kept secrets among Cheshire's many
attractions. Over the past few years it has undergone some major
changes and is now recognized as one of the Country’s leading
specialist museums. |
Bolton
Steam Museum
The largest collection of working mill steam engines in the UK
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 Boston Water
Works Museum
The Waterworks Museum interprets unique stories of one of the
country's first metropolitan water systems through exhibitions
and educational programs on engineering, architecture, social
history, and public health. |
 Colonel
Ward Pump Station, Buffalo, NY
In the early 1900s colossal five story high, 60-foot, steam
pumps delivered water to the city of Buffalo. These mammoth
steam pumps still sit along side their smaller replacements, and
have attracted attention from pump and steam engine enthusiasts. |
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 Claymills
Victorian Pumping Station Online Museum
We have four beam engines by Gimson of Leicester 1885, Five
boilers Thompson 1936-37, Steam driven workshop, Forge and a
1930's dynamo house with early (1890's) Crompton dynamo driven
by a Buxton and Thornley steam engine. |
 Cleveland Water
Works History
While water has guided the development of the Greater Cleveland
area, it almost kept Cleveland from becoming a city. Founded in
a swampy area on the shores of Lake Erie, the settlement that
later became Cleveland was plagued by malaria, which wiped out
almost all the early settlers. More came, however, drawn in part
by the easy availability of water from Lake Erie and the rivers
and creeks that flow into it.
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The
Coolspring Power Museum
Collection of historic internal combustion stationary gas
engines is the largest, mechanically most interesting, and
historically significant in the entire country. |
Crossness Pumping Station
The Beam Engine House was constructed in the Romanesque style
and features some of the most spectacular ornamental Victorian
cast ironwork to be found today. It also contains the four
original pumping engines, which are possibly the largest
remaining rotative beam engines in the world,
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 Detroit
Water and Sewerage Department, The First 300 Years
The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) is the third
largest provider of high-quality drinking water and wastewater
treatment services in the United States. It has been a most
incredible journey.
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 Erie
Pennsylvania Water Works, home for a 20 million
gallon per day( MGD) Bethlehem Steel Triple Expansion High Duty
Pumping Engine (aka Big bertha).Visitors wishing to see Big
Bertha can schedule tours throughout the year. Tour guides need
advanced notice and a group size of at least 10 people. Call
814-870-8032 and ask for Aaron L. Stankiewiz to learn about
available tour dates.
If you are not able to put together a group, they have an
annual tour during the city’s “Celebrate Erie” on the third of
fourth Saturday in August. Erie Water Works opens their doors to
Big Bertha during that time for anyone wishing to see the
engine.
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Forncett Industrial Steam Museum
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Goulburn Historic Waterworks Museum
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 Hamilton
Museum of Steam and Technology QEW, Hamilton, Ontario
Take a peek into life at the beginning of Canada's industrial
revolution. This magnificent example of 19th century public works
architecture preserves two 45-foot high, 70-ton steam engines which
pumped the first clean water to the city over 140 years ago. One engine
operates as a demonstration every day!
The only surviving facility of its time in North America, the museum
is a National Historic Site and a Civil and Power Engineering Landmark.
These Canadian made engines are the oldest surviving examples in the
nation. |
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Historical
Construction Equipment Association
Dedicated to preserving for public education the history of the
construction, dredging and surface mining equipment industries.
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 Kempton
Steam Museum, London, UK
Home for the Worlds Largest Operating Triple Expansion
Steam Engine, "The Sir William Prescott". 62 feet tall.
An awesome museum.See their Video 
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Kew
Bridge Steam Museum, Brentford, Middlesex -
Nine pumping engines of various types and designs, including a 1846,
Cornish beam engine, reputed to be the largest working beam engine in
the world. |
 Louisville
Water Company Pumping Station and Water Tower
It has stood on the banks of the Ohio River for 150 years,
serving as a visual landmark for the city of Louisville and the
water utility that bears its name. Now, during its 150th
anniversary, Louisville Water Company is in the midst of a $2.2
million renovation project that will bring the historic
structure to closely resemble its appearance in 1860. |
Markfield Beam Engine and Museum
The principal exhibit is the Wood Bros. Beam Steam Pumping
Engine of 1886. The Engine has been restored and can be seen
operating under steam power on designated days. The Engine House
also has been renovated. |
Markham Grange Steam Museum
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Museum of Power
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Housed in a former Pumping Station and newly refurbished, the
museum contains a fascinating collection which ranges from a
working overhead machine shop to a petrol powered iron. The
jewel in our crown is the 'Lilleshall' triple expansion steam
pump now back on steam after 50 years.
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National Museum of
Industrial History, Bethlehem, PA
In development. |
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 Welcome to Papplewick Pumping
Station,
Britain’s finest Victorian Waterworks. The Pumping Station is
in steam 8 times a year. The majority of the site is accessible
for all but due to the historical nature of the Engine House
access is via a small flight of steps leading to the porch and
main door; there are also internal stairs for reaching the upper
floors.
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 Papplewick
Pumping Station
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Working examples of Victorian pumping
engines in an Ornate Victorian Architecture structure, opened in
1884, with two unique Watts Rotative Beam Engines. The
main building houses two massive beam engines, built by James
Watt & Co. of Soho Works.
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 Paxman
History Pages ,
A comprehensive history of the engine builders, Paxman & Co. of
Colchester, and their involvement in steam engineering. Starting
with their first portable engine in 1870 and the expansion of
their range to include a wide variety of horizontal and vertical
steam engines, traction engines and also steam locomotives.
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Pumping Station at Mill Meece
The Mill Meece horizontal tandem compound steam engines are
the only ones of their type still capable of being steamed.
Along with all the ancillary equipment of boilers, economiser,
Weir pumps, steam winch and weigh bridge the station forms a
complete example of an Edwardian water supply pumping station. |
 Ryhope
Engine Museum, Sunderland
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Two double-acting, rotative beam engines preserved in their
original pumping house.
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Spotswood Pumping Station. Melbourne, Australia
The Spotswood Pumping Station was built in the late nineteenth
century as a key component of Melbourne's first centralized
sewerage system. Today it is one of Australia's most important
industrial heritage sites.
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Shreveport Water Works Museum
USA
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Society for Industrial Archeology
The SIA is made up of members, world-wide, who have a strong interest in
preserving, interpreting and documenting our industrial past and
heritage |
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 The
Museum of Retro Technology
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 TICCIH
The International Committee for the Conservation of the
Industrial Heritage is the international organization for
industrial archeology and the industrial heritage. Its aim is to
study, protect, conserve and explain the remains of
industrialization.
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Steam Engine Library
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY,
A collection of historical documents relating to the history of the
steam engine |
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The Water Works Conservancy, Inc.
NJ
A history, educational and historic preservation advocacy
organization, started in 1994 as a grassroots effort to save the
historic Hackensack Water Works site on Van Buskirk Island in
Oradell, NJ. The mission of the Water Works Conservancy, Inc. is
to tell the story of water as a vital resource, through the
historic interaction between the Hackensack River, its ecosystem
and the humans who depend upon it. In 2007 the museum
opened at 383 Kinderkamack Road, Oradell, NJ, and began
developing programs and exhibits around the themes of the
Hackensack River, the history of the Water Works and the history
of Bergen County. |
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International Stationary Steam Engines by Rob Dickinson
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 Tees Cottage Pumping Station Coniscliffe Road, Darlington
Tees Cottage Pumping Station is a Victorian waterworks in
Darlington in the North East of England which began supplying
water to Darlington in 1849.
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The Steam Museum
This core collection
includes many fine examples of rare or unique steam powered
machinery; ranging from WW2 special forces steam generators, to
Traction Engines and Steam Rollers, Stationary Engines, Railway
Locomotives, Historic Fairground Rides and Steamships.
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The Water Works Museum Hereford
The working museum
which makes the story of drinking water spring to life
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The
New England Wireless and Steam Museum
Road Island,
Steam & Compressed Air for Models.
Licensed Boilers & Licensed Engineers.
New England's Largest Steam-Up Boiler.
Giant Working Steam Engines & Hot Air & IC.
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 Waco, Texas Pumping
Station, Allis Chalmers Corliss Engine
Pictures courtesy
John & Cathy Mandell |
Walthamstow
Pumphouse Museum
Today the museum is home to a growing collection of transport, artifacts
and displays, interpreting the nationally important steam and transport
first achievements of the Lea Valley Corridor.
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Youngstown
Steel Heritage Foundation
Rescue
operations for a William Tod Co. 34" x 68" x 60" Cross
Compound Stationary Steam Engine |
