steam show near Berlin

[Michael S.]

Tomorrow I'm going to a steam show north of Berlin.
This show is taking place again after 6 years and was always very well attended. It takes place on the site of a former brick factory. I hope it will be as beautiful as it once was. I have a few more pictures here from my last visit in 2014.

Michael

[Michael S.]

My car is packed and I'm ready to go.

[Roger B]

Splendid    What a wonderful show, I hope it manages to keep the same atmosphere 

[crueby]

Enjoy! Take lots of pictures!

[Vixen]

Enjoy! Take lots of pictures!

And some close ups of the steam bikes, if they are there again

Mike

[cnr6400]

Have a great time Michael! 

[DB BR 01]

Gibt es hier eine dampfbetriebene Currywurst Maschine?   

[Michael S.]

We arrived safely after a good 2.5 hours. My father and I have set up our tent and I have already walked around the site and there is a little to see. It doesn't start until tomorrow. My neighbor built a model of a bucket crawler excavator. There are also other interesting things to see. A steam ram has been standing here for 30 years. All doors and hatches are closed but if you hold your cell phone through a narrow slot you can see the interior of the steam ram.

Michael

[Michael S.]

The area where the show takes place was a former brick factory. With ring ovens for the bricks. The factory operated until 1990 and now everything is a museum. Almost all of the bricks were built in Berlin. You can get to Berlin's city center via canals. There must have been many, many millions of stones. A narrow-gauge railway runs on the site. With diesel locomotive or steam locomotive.

Michael

[crueby]

Looks like some amazing machines there!  That bucket excavator is amazing!

[Michael S.]

A video about the excavator.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6i_OH19x2s" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6i_OH19x2s</a>

[crueby]

Thats spectacular!! 

[cnr6400]

 

[Michael S.]

That would be too many small parts for me! But fascinating.


<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX34uQ17SBA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX34uQ17SBA</a>

[Kim]

That is quite cool!  Thanks for the videos of it!  Chris, that looks like one of your projects   

Looks like a great show, Michael.  Hope you and your father have a great weekend!

Kim

[Michael S.]

Yes Kim, I hope it's a nice weekend and I'm glad that my father, at 81 years old, is still doing it.

Here's another suggestion for Roger. He could install his Junkers engine in a Feldbahn locomotive.


And I knew that Fowler had a company in my hometown, but I had never actually seen a tractor.

Greetings Michael

[crueby]

If there is that Fowler tractor nearby, you may need to do a model of it!

I have some old Marion catalogs of the gold mining dredges they did with bucket lines like that model has. I've never seen a drag line like that with the three rails underneath plus the rails for the ore cars, there is a LOT going on in that video!  On the gold dredges, the buckets went in the other direction to lift up dirt/rocks out at the end under the water, and lifted them up onto the boom, back into the dredge where they were dumped into a trommel barrel for washing before putting the gold/dirt through a set of riffles to separate the gold. Lots of different variation on that type of machine!
Great show, thanks for the pictures/videos!

[Michael S.]

Today we're steaming.
I have my "Dörfel", "the Sachsenberg" and an oscillating steam engine with me.

Greetings Michael

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcD0EMxro_c" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcD0EMxro_c</a>

[Kim]

Beautiful models, Michael!  Looks like a chilly morning.  Hope you're staying warm and having fun!

Kim

[Michael S.]

The weather was great yesterday. But there are a lot of mosquitoes here that annoy us.
I have a video of the large steam engine that powered the factory. And a video of the engines and models. Unfortunately, there are always fewer exhibitors. Only a few young people left.

Michael


<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgxl-7vVEsU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgxl-7vVEsU</a>


<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnJ2HqP9lVM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnJ2HqP9lVM</a>

[michaelr]

Michael, I enjoyed those video's it looks a great place to have a steam festival, thanks for showing them.
I was in Berlin 1957/59 doing my army service there was some steam powered craft on the river Havel in those days, and by the way I also remember the mosquitoes a real pain.
Pictures of the Havel Spandau. Michaelr
 

[Michael S.]

Finally today I have my Stuart No. 1 connected to the boiler. After over 10 years I am still convinced that it is perfect.

Michael

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRN_RjXWyL4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRN_RjXWyL4</a>

[Admiral_dk]

Thank you for showing picture and Videoes 

Your Stuart is running very well 

Per     

[Kim]

Looks like a wonderful show, Michael!  Glad the weather was good.  That always makes it more fun

Great videos. And your Stuart runs wonderfully!  I can see why you're pleased with it!
Kim