In today’s video, we take a look at Lombard’s Log Haulers, the giant machines that were basically saddle tank locomotives with tank tracks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Steam_Log_Hauler
https://www.maineforestandloggingmuseum.org/exhibits/lombard-log-hauler/lombard-log-hauler-resources/lombard-existing-machines/
https://sites.google.com/site/mitchellcohistoricalsociety/cedar-valley-memories/1910-phoenix-log-hauler
https://csrail.org/newsroom/2016/7/15/how-it-works-phoenix-log-hauler
https://wdm.ca/collections/log-hauler/
https://bangshift.com/bangshiftxl/motorized-freak-of-the-week-the-lombard-steam-log-hauler/
https://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/lombard-log-hauler
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No, vacuum tubes are better for trains than steel rails, as China is proving. If we had listened to Elon Musk, we'd be world leaders in the tech, but instead China will dominate the market.
finally, tank engine
Anyone else annoyed by the barely audible background music? Other than that, very interesting and well presented.
choo choo! 🚂🌨❄☃😊👍
go away train . youre drunk
It makes sense, it's sort of a steam-powered ancestor to the half-track.
Well, during the ice storm of 1998 in Quebec, a locomotive ran on the road to power a school and the town hall of Boucherville. I don't know the distance and how they steer it. My sister didn't have electricity for a month and she told me the neighbor kids do ice skating in the yard.
I like these kinds of locomotives because they look unique! If only there was a Thomas character based on the Lombard Log 🪵 Hauler! 😊
Where we’re going we don’t need, tracks.
where we're going, we dont need rails
"Quick get in the steammobile!"
Maine mentioned
Hey!!! I volunteer at a museum that has two steam lombards and two gasoline ones!!! I have a few videos of them
It would’ve been challenging to get that engine into reverse when needed
At that point, it was no longer a locomotive but more of a steam tractor.
At the Bradley lumber museum ME, we have two steam lombards, both operational. My dad and I volunteer there, the steering is a 30:1 ratio, my dad once busted his finger while steering it.
We also have a Lombard dump truck and two gas Lombards. I even drove the 1932 gas Lombard with the sleds on it. We do events and one of our volunteers has his own YouTube channel.
I also have a video up on my channel of one of the museum’s gas Lombard running. She’s pretty cranky but runs like a Cadillac
I couldn't help but laugh at the deer coming along and eating the hay they'd put down to aid with traction 🤣🤣🤣
Wow.
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Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture:
Logging Bad Piggies
Locomotive Vehicle
They’re the same picture.
theres a vid on yt of one of these chuffing about
Never heard of these. Thanks for the story!
to be honest, to prevent the sliding-down-the-hill issue they could have fitted it with wider tracks that had slightly thicker pads with hook-like structures pointing both directions as to prevent the sliding.
The first Lombard was made in 1900 and had a horizontal boiler. Not vertical. The vertical boiler Lombards were offered later on as a lighter, cheaper alternative to the larger, horizontal boiler Lombards. The issue wasn’t that the tracks broke it was the fact that Lombard had used cogs rather than Sprockets. Much like a cog belt. The grooves would pack with mud and snow causing the tracks to come off. The solution was changing to sprockets which are self cleaning. At the Maine Forest & Logging Museum in Bradley, Maine, we have two steam Lombards (1907 & 1914) and three of the later gasoline powered Lombards. (1919, 1928 & 1934) which we operate on a regular basis.
Cool small train channel > https://www.youtube.com/@IndianaCentraltrains
There is one in the Maine state museum it is a work of art.
So basically a steam-powered snowmobile? Cool.
The armored gasoline powered Lombard at 2:28 is one of approximately 100 Lombard Tractor-Trucks sold to the Imperial Russian Army in 1917 and used as artillery tractors. During the revolution, a number of the survivors were adapted as armored half tracks.
Oh yeah I remember that one
Rails? Where we're going, we don't need rails
Thank you so much for this information…magnificent…❤
Let's see Jean Kayak drive one of these!
They have one of these on display in a northern Wisconsin. I think it is near Eagle River.
I feel like Linn Tractors would have been worth a mention. Linn worked with Lombard and left to make half-track trucks of a similar design that filled a similar role in logging and heavy loads. These ended up being used far longer than their steam counterparts, into WW2, when technology finally outpaced them.
It's no question, logging engines are the most unique and unusual steam engines to ever exist and operate. I'd sure like to take a sleigh ride from one of these babies!
Do you think you could talk about the only steam-powered airplane that had ever been built?
There was one 10 ton Lombard Tractor-Truck that was converted to run on rails. It was used during construction of Edouard Lacroix’s Eagle Lake & West Branch Railroad. A handful of parts from it including the wheels still survive.