The Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum at San Diego County Fair 6-7-2014
The Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum will show visitors the equipment that farmers used in the good old days. Additionally, they will teach fairgoers traditional homemaking crafts.The Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, a non-profit corporation, collects, preserves and displays examples of mechanical ingenuity and crafts associated with the early days of the American farm and rural community. The Museum offers educational and recreational opportunities to the public through exhibits, demonstrations, activities and programs displaying the art of invention fulfilling necessity. Acknowledging the past provides direction for the future.
The Fab Fair is here! The Fair continues Saturday, June 7 through Sunday, July 6 (closed Mondays and the first two Tuesdays), celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' first visit to the United States, sparking the British Invasion in music and pop culture, influencing even today's musicians. Welcome to the 2014 San Diego County Fair
TRACTOR PARADE - June 2018 - Antique Steam Engine Museum, Vista, CA
Tractor Parade at Antique Steam Engine Museum, Vista, CA June 17, 2018
TRACTOR PARADE - Antique Steam Engine Museum, Vista CA - JUNE 17 2018
Tractor Parade at Antique Steam Engine Museum in Vista, CA on June 17, 2018
1910 Allis-Chalmers Corliss Engine At Vista, California 6-26-10
This 1910 Allis-Chalmers Corliss Steam Engine is at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum at Vista, California. It is one of several built that year for the Holy Sugar Company's beet sugar factory in Santa Ana, CA., where it worked for 68 years. The factory was closed and torn down in 1978 and two of these engines were saved from scrapping. This one spent a few years disassembled in Oregon before it was moved down to Vista and reassembled as it is here. 1984 was the first year it was run at the museum with steam supplied by a 60 horsepower Case steam tractor. The verticle boiler seen at the end of the video is not actually suppling steam to this engine. The steam for the stationary steam engines at the museum is supplied by what looked to me to be two modern Natural Gas fired boilers near the engine shed.
The specs. for this engine;
Total weight: 80,000 pounds
Weight of the flywheel: 18,000 pounds
Flywheel size: 12 feet in diameter, 44 inches wide
Cylinder size: 20 diameter, 36 inch stroke
Horsepower: 300 @ 80 RPM
Torque: Man, I wish I knew!
All of this information was taken from the description board set up near the engine.
Video was shot at the June 26th, 2010 show.
Antique Steam Engine Museum Photo Ride-Glendale HOG - April 13, 2013
On Saturday, April 13th, 2013, Golden State Glendale HOG went on a journey to the Antique Steam and Gas Museum in Vista, CA, for one of their Photo Contest Rides.
In a word...Awesome!
Starting The Big Single-Cylinder Fairbanks-Morse 15-25 Tractor At Vista, California 6-16-18
This big old single-cylinder F-M 15-25 tractor was playing nice at this moment and started with very little trouble. A little while later, she turned into a cranky old fart! Seen at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum in Vista, California on Saturday June 16th., 1018
Antique Farm Tractors San Diego County Fair 7-4-2014
Take a look back at our agricultural history with the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum and get some gardening tips to take home to your ...
The Fab Fair is here! The Fair continues through Sunday, July 6 (closed on Mondays), celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' first visit to the United States, sparking the British Invasion in music and pop culture, influencing even today's musicians. Welcome to the 2014 San Diego County Fair,
Villaume Corliss Steam Engine WMSTR Rollag MN
This is a short interview and showing of the Corliss steam engine located in Rollag Minnesota. The engine is ran multiple times a year, and annually during the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion. WMSTR is one of the largest gathering of steam powered equipment, antique gas, diesel, and kerosene powered equipment in the United States.
The Villaume engine was manufactured by Twin City iron works in Minneapolis MN for the Villaume Box & Lumber company. The Engine paired with an Allis Chalmers alternator provided dependable electricity to the Factory that was much safer than line shafts. Electricity was also produced to provide light to increase productivity and safety for the workers in this time. To this day the engine and alternator produce light when ran for the building it is housed in.
This engine is one of a few run of the famous Montana Boiler
Farrar and Trefts 1870s Steam Engine
I've got one just like this, also from Pico Canyon in CA. The tag on this states that it's the oldest steam engine owned by the museum..These were used on the first commercial oil field in California in the 1870s. This one, others, and mine were rescued in 1974 by Greg Johnson and friends. Much more information about the Pico oilfields and some stunning 1877 photos can be found on this website belonging to Stan Walker: Look at the Historic Photos to see some of these engines as they were being used in the oil field. Spectacular!
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Antique Jacktown Engine Show OCT 2019
Homemade Tracked Utility Flatbed Vehicle At Vista, California 6-16-18
I don't know any of the particulars of this neat little tracked vehicle seen at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum show in Vista, California on Saturday June 16th., 2018.
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This is Larry's tank cooled Stover. He hauled it in for an impromptu engine get-together. Nice slow running original engine!
Antique Powerland at the Salem Ag-Fest 2014
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A Tour of 1800 Postcards NYC Printing Facility
This is a video tour of 1800 Postcards printing facility in new york city. Here you can visualize our creation process from proof to press. We only use the most state of the art equipment and you can enjoy this printing tour free today.
Rusty Iron: June 2012 Tractor Show
Some video from the Tractor Show and highlights of the Tractor Parade from the Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum (AGSM) in Vista California on June 16, 2012.
HUGE 130 Ton 4798 horsepower 100 year old Cooper Corliss Steam Engine Operating in Freeport IL
This video is of the Huge 130 Ton 1914 Cooper Corliss Stationary Steam Engine in Freeport, Illinois that originally came out of the Matthiessen Hegeler Zinc Rolling Mill in Lasalle Illinois.
While I shot this video a few years ago and posted it in 2012, we will be celebrating its 100th birthday this year in 2014.
It is owned and operated by the Stephenson County Antique Engine Club in Freeport, Illinois which also has the Silvercreek & Stephenson Railroad (with its annual Halloween Train Of Terror) and the Silver Creek Museum at 2954 S. Walnut Rd. Freeport, Illinois 61032. The engine is located in a building right behind the Museum which is accross the road from the Railroad complex at the corners of Lamm & Walnut Roads just a couple miles South of Freeport and about a mile off of Highway 26
This is the Largest Steam Engine within a 500 Mile Radius of Freeport Illinois, and the Largest Operating Steam Engine in the Entire United States.
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The 130 Ton engine has a 25 foot 4 inch diameter flywheel that weighs in at 60 Tons with a total rolling mass of 85 Tons with the crankshaft, hub, and flywheel, yet on start up when the valve is opened, it will get up to speed in less than a single revolution. While it does run at a slow RPM, just imagine taking an 85 Ton Semi tractor trailer rig and getting it up to speed in that short of a time. This does it with a single cylinder. That is the awsome power of Steam.
There are a few other videos of this engine on here, but I haven't found any others with it running anywhere near its rated speed of 45 RPM where it puts out a staggering 4798 horse power on 225 psi of steam pressure. The paint color is just a little darker than John Deere Green.
This engine was disassembled by a group of club members, and transported from Lasalle to Freeport, where it was eventually reassembled after aquiring the land to build it on, and then the new building was erected over it. If you look closely, you can see where the steel frame building required a little modification to clear the flywheel rim, as a mistake was made in the measuments and the main beam did not clear the flywheel. Another good size comparison, is the old Wallis OK Tractor that can be seen in the background through the spokes of the flywheel.
The engine can be seen running each time the Railroad and Museum are open including on Memorial Day, Fathers Day, Independance Day, Labor Day, and during the clubs annual Threshing Show aka the Freeport Show which is held just up the road at the Stephenson County Fairgrounds, where I operate the Club's Steam Powered Circular Sawmill.
I'm not posting the individual dates on here, as they change each year with the holidays and most of the open dates being on weekends, but you can find the dates posted on the clubs website at along with other information about the club and its activities.