No 6207 A Study in Steel 1935

[toolsntat]

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A very well done film about the making of a huge steam locomotive from plain bar steel. It is nothing short of incredible to see how these men work to build a giant machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6hmSclbRE

Hope you enjoy

Andy

 

[StevieB]

That was superb - thanks for posting. It is not until you see that kind of film that you realise how skills can die out so quickly!

Steve

 

[xy mosian]

Thank for posting that link. The moustache on the big guy with the sledge hammer was very impressive.
xy

 

[Jonzjob]

Crikey Andy! That just got through a couple of hours this afternoon mate!!! :mrgreen:

The following one is 1 1/2 hours long and has several British Transport films, but the making of that loco is impressive!!

 

[Cheshirechappie]

Thanks for that, Andy. Crewe used to boast that it could build a wagon an hour, a carriage a day and a locomotive a week. I think it still holds the record for assembling a locomotive from component parts in the fastest time (17 hours :shock: ) - mind you, I'll bet it ran like a bag of spanners :lol: .

It is not until you see that kind of film that you realise how skills can die out so quickly!

Well - to be fair, technology has moved on about 80 years since then. We still make lots of stuff, but we don't need as many steam locomotives as we once did. We tend not to hold stuff together with rivets as much as we used to, for example, but we're an awful lot better at welding.

We can still build new ones, though. Google '60163 Tornado' for one particularly impressive example, but there are several others.

Edit to add - http://www.a1steam.com/