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Thats an awesome engine! Did anybody ever tighten the rod gland on that high pressure cylinder? Lol

Thank you for documenting and sharing this history. It's a shame the powers that be were so myopic and short sighted.

Does anyone know whether there are drawings of this engine, anywhere? This would be a real treat for a model engineer to spend some years on. Edit: the Library of Congess has 17 photo plates of the East Boston pumping station. www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ma1331.photos/?sp=1&st=gallery

Like in London,some of the huge old beam pumps for the London Sewage system were laid up and replaced with electric or diesel engines wich were smelly,hellishly noisy and didnt do the work those old steam engines did for 150 years non stop.progress.well i ask you.this lovely RDial Engine would have gone for another 150 years i am sure.Beautiful work of Art.such a shame.our London Engines are preserved,but for how long?we have lost wonderful things,along with the engineers that operated them.

The operator was my Grand Father. Very smart man. Last person who knew how to run that Machine.

What a real shame that this unusual engine has been broken up could have should have been presvered but as always short sighted cooperate bean counters seem to win thankyou for putting your film up regards 🤝👍

The coming fate of this engine would explain why it appears that the high pressure piston was leaking badly. No maintenance on a machine to be scrapped.

Still sailing the 300?

This film gives me a view of my Father's past too. Thank you. Dad served in the US Cavalry at the canal in the mid-1930's. By the way, what ever one thinks of it, an interesting fact of his Panama experience involved the wide spread use among the soldiery of marijuana. For one stunt, his buddies would drag a long plank up one of the two base water towers by night, bridge it between the tower walkarounds, scoot out onto the plank (risk of fall, injury, death) and smoke pot. Dad, like probably most of the users, left the habit behind when reassigned to the next location... Which, turned out to be France, and lived to tell the tale.

Really this engine should have been saved under a heritage protection listing, it’s such a great loss to lose such a magnificent piece of machinery especially when it was still capable of doing its job.

This rig reminds me of a cross between a Cooper/Bessemer and one of the old oil well pumping setups with the remote rods run to wells all over the place. I like diesels but none can hold a candle to this rig!

Besides that steam engine, there is quit some other vintage steam & gas engines in that building; it could very well become a interesting engineering museum. But it is unlikely that will come to pass...

At what point does engineering quit being engineering and crosses into the realm of art? This engine is surreal and looks like something out of Dr Seuss or Willy Wonka lol. Absolutely beautiful. Edit: sad to know this no longer exists, it's a testament to the brilliance of engineers predating modern day!

glad you put this up! thank you! I SURVIVED HURRICANE BOB!!!! LOLOLOL Who else remembers the T-shirts

I was around 10 years old. I'm now 35. Crazy. I remember the bridge had huge holes in it and some of it was collapsed and boats was on the road. It was bad BUT I remember them fixing the bride up pretty fast. I wish they would fix that bridge now already lol. Its been taking them years to fix it when Bob messed the bride up and it was back on in a few days.

I've seen pictures of other radial Corliss Pumping engines, I'm sure there all gone now. The builders Plate says " Ames" They were the same company that built the compound marine steam engine that's in the steam boat "Sabino" at Mystic Seaport.

Where is the old engine now?

Wow, very interesting, I've never seen a radial steam engine before. It's too bad this couldn't be preserved, as in sure it was rather unique. Thank you for sharing.

So it's a shit shifter

is this video from Noel hill?

I hope I sail with these guys someday!

IS THAT A COLLIS VALVE?!

wow memories

How does this boat compare with Olivebank?

It must have been interesting to see the video. Could you possibly tell me more about what that engineer was sailing?. I couldn't decipher it all.

meant Buell Hollister who I will Thank again for uploading this the employee at my work get a kick out of seeing what used to pump sewage to deer island treatment plant

don't now when this was shot but it was not replaced by a diesel but by 7 Siemens pumps with 7 ge electric drives in a new pumping station named I n Caruso Wich is right next door I worked in both buildings and it breaks my heart to see the building in such a state abandoned and condemned this building survived the great Chelsea fire of 1908 Wich burned it's roof off thank good the fire of 1973 never touched it but political malfeasance did what fire could not so the first sewage pumping station in this country went to the scrap heap instead of being preserved breaks my heart thanks again m Buell for uploading this

thanks buell Hollister for uploading this I hope there are more videos of here out there

I was 1 of the last oilers on the Corliss engine the Smithsonian wanted it but the Mwra would not pay to break it down and ship it to them so we kept the manufacturer plates the gauges and the clock the rest went to scrap wich broke my heart I miss the chug of the old girl

great video thank you!...25 year since the last real hurricane. Bob hit at a quite the LOW tide, thankfully.

Was the engine saved or was it destroyed?

Without the engine she needs at least 12 to 15 knots of wind to get her moving, but once she gets it she's good for about 6 knots through the water. She'll sail with less wind, of course, but the Westerbeke comes in handy then. This was my first season with her, so I am still getting experience, but I think she does pretty well for a 30' motorsailer with about 28 feet on the waterline and just under 12 feet of beam.

How does she sail under the wind?