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Traction Engines, Steam Rollers, Stationary Boilers and Steam Powered Railway Cranes


  

While these machines are not trains, they are still steam powered (or were), and oddly enough quite a few have managed to survive their years of neglect after they were removed from service. I dont know anything about them, suffice to say they too are worthy of preservation. The biggest collection of them that I am aware of is at the James Hall Museum of Transport (JHTM) in the South of Johannesburg, which used to have a working Fowler called "Judy" many years back, but I believe she is now at Sandstone Estates. The machines that were in Florida are no longer there either, they have been returned to JHTM who they belonged to. The steam powered railway crane is also a rare object, but a number have survived with preservation groups and hopefully one day somebody will get one of them working.


Texas Jack
JHTM

Live Steam Model
JHTM

Herbert Buchanan &Co.
Stationary Boiler
JHTM

Fowler Mobile Steam Crane
JHTM

Steam Rollers
JHTM

"Sentinel" Steam Wagon
JHTM

Aveling & Porter
Steam Roller
SANRASM South

10BHP Ruston Stationary Boiler
Kloofendal

Steam Roller
Florida

Aveling & Porter #5749
Steam Roller
Wilrogate SC

Stationary Boiler
Wilrogate SC

Ruston Proctor # 36621 (1909)
Agricultural machine
JHTM

Fowler Steam Roller
SANRASM North

Aveling & Porter # 5804
JHTM

Traction Engine
Koffeefontein

10T Grafton Steam Crane
SANRASM North

Fowler Steam Roller
SANRASM North

Fowler (Foden?) Steam Roller
SANRASM North

Cowans Sheldon Breakdown Crane
Reefsteamers

Cowans Sheldon Breakdown Crane
Millsite

Booth Breakdown Crane
Reefsteamers

Aveling and Porter # 5776
JHTM

Stationary Boiler
Meyerton

Garrett undertype wagon
JHTM

Stationary Boiler
Gold Reef City

Marshall Stationary Boiler
Gold Reef City

Robey Stationary Boiler
Gold Reef City

Great Dorset Steam Fair
 
Live Steam Burrell Model
JHTM

©DR Walker. 2010-2012. Created 04 September 2010. Updated 21 September 2011. Photograph of Koffeefontein engine courtesy of Terry Cawood. Photograph of stationary boilers in Meyerton and at Gold Reef City by Clinton Hattingh, Great Dorset Steam Fair images courtesy of Hugh Knapton.