Great Dorset Steam Fair 2014, WW1 heavy haul through a city

Ain't it great that youtube gives anyone with internet access the ability to see what happens in places we can never travel to for events we would otherwise miss?

See also http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/02/may-be-coolest-thing-you-see-all-day.html for the same event from someone else's point of view

Hartswell Heavy Haulage ... ya big beautiful beast! At the Great Dorset Steam Fair 2007

thanks to Lucian George of DWrenched.com!

Been a long time since I've posted a steam roller, here are some putting on a new road surface in 1926

found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/353785941367129/

there are the more extreme forms of cool stuff

Both found on http://darkdraggon.tumblr.com/

the transition of the steam pumper from horse drawn to front drive, to the modern vehicle version

from horse drawn above, to the motor driven below

I've posted all of these in the past at different times, but though that's great for citing sources, it's lousy at a comprehensive comparison / contrast  post

reminder of the dangers of steam locomotive improper operation... must have ran low on water, or high on pressure

Found on https://www.facebook.com/goupil.dubois.7

may be the coolest thing you see all day, a convoy of WW1 steam powered vehicles

Thanks Mike!